Labour's asylum reforms risk rise in homelessness, major audit warns

Labour's asylum reforms risk rise in homelessness, major audit warns

LABOUR’S sweeping asylum reforms risk making more people homeless and other “unintended consequences”, according to a major review.

UK National Audit Office warns asylum reforms may trigger homelessness

The United Kingdom’s National Audit Office (NAO) has warned that major reforms introduced by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood to the asylum system may lead to “unintended consequences,” including a rise in homelessness among asylum seekers and increasing case backlogs. In a report released on Wednesday, it stated that although the government’s policies aim to speed up decision-making and reduce appeals, they can only be effective if the existing b…