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.