In response to the Comprehensive Spending Review in which the Home Office is set to make cuts of 23% to its budget over four years, Dave Garratt, acting Chief Executive of Refugee Action, said:
“Refugee Action is acutely aware of the need to make spending cuts within the Home Office, and we welcome UKBA plans to cut their budget by reducing waste and simplifying systems. It is also vital that people fleeing war and human rights abuses get the protection they deserve. We believe that voluntary sector agencies like Refugee Action are the key to getting this balance right. (more…)
“In 1940, my grandfather, with my dad, climbed onto one of the last boats out of Belgium. They had to make a heart breaking decision – to leave behind my grandmother and my father’s sister. They spent the war in hiding, in a village sheltered by a brave local farmer. Month after month, year upon year, they lived in fear of the knock at the door… 