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Asylum Data

The Home Office provides accommodation for adult asylum seekers who are waiting for their application to be heard in towns and cities nominated as dispersal centres.

In the East of England, the accommodation providers are Serco and Clearsprings Ready Homes. There are currently about 2000 asylum seekers housed across the East of England in dispersed accommodation and further asylum seekers in contingency sites on a temporary basis.

Additionally, each county and unitary authority is responsible for supporting any unaccompanied child who makes an asylum application when in that particular local authority. They are supported in the same way as any other looked after child. Approximately 750 children are in this position in the East of England as of September 2022.

Data Resources

Immigration statistics quarterly release Asylum and resettlement datasets Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children

This series brings together all documents relating to Immigration statistics quarterly release.

Please follow this link to access the most recent data:

Home Office immigration statistics

The datasets include:

Asylum applications, decisions and resettlement
Age disputes
Asylum appeals
Asylum support
Dublin regulation
Family reunion
Local authority data

Please follow this link to access the most recent and historic data:

Asylum and resettlement datasets

This data from LG Inform includes the number of Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children looked after at 31 March. Figures exclude children looked after under an agreed series of short term placements.

Please follow the link below for further information:

LG Inform UASC data by LA