Outline the financial support available to asylum seekers and failed asylum seekers.

Consider including some statistics in connection with the asylum process.

Consider the challenges that an asylum seeker faces when making an asylum claim in the UK – what barriers, problems may they face.

What legal advice may an asylum seekers get in the UK and is this sufficient?

What housing is an asylum seeker entitled to?

What are the appeal rights if a negative asylum decision is made?

 Sources of information that you may consider using:

Undertake your own research using NTU's Library OneSearch as the starting point to find academic articles on the immigration and asylum process. There are a wide range of articles on the immigration and asylum process.

 Read the presentation by the British Red Cross in the learning room.

Information in the learning room from professional organisations who support refugees and asylum seekers: British Red Cross, Refugee Council, Right to Remain and Asylum Aid.

Home Office statistics on asylum and House of Commons Briefing Paper on Asylum process .

Textbook on Immigration and Asylum Law by Gina Clayton in the NTU library.

Consider if there are particular groups of people who find it particularly hard to afford appropriate accommodation.

Consider the different trends in different types of tenure (e.g owner occupiers, private rented accommodation, social rented accommodation).

Consider which government policies may have had an influence on the affordability of housing.

Sources of information that you may consider using:

Read the PowerPoint presentations in the learning room from weeks 15 and 16.

Read the latest English Housing Survey.

Read the latest parliamentary briefing on this issue and the opinion of housing organisations such as Shelter.

Undertake your own research using NTU's Library OneSearch as the starting point to find academic articles on affordable housing. 

What are the main elements of the Homelessness Reduction Act?

In what ways is the Homelessness Reduction Act an improvement on previous homelessness legislation and how might it tackle homelessness?

What are the limitations of the Homelessness Reduction Act, in what ways can it be criticised, does if go far enough, will it address the underlying causes and consequences of homelessness?

Read the PowerPoint presentation in the learning room (week 17) – the final slide has some analysis of the Act that we looked at in an exercise during one of our session.

Read professional opinions of the Act from housing organisations such as: Shelter, Crisis, Homeless Link.

Watch the Homeless Link webinar in week 17 of the learning room

Undertake your own research using NTU's Library OneSearch as the starting point to find academic articles on the Homelessness Reduction Act (as this is a new piece of legislation there is a limited range of journal articles).

What are some of the main health challenges that the UK currently faces?

Identify the policies that the government has implemented in recent years to encourage healthy lifestyles (e.g. around obesity, diet, smoking, exercise).

Evaluate the extent to which these policies have been successful, consider a range of information and statistics.

How might we judge the success of government health policies?

 Sources of information that you may consider using:

Read the presentations from weeks 13 and 14 in the learning room.

Undertake your own research using NTU's Library OneSearch as the starting point to find academic articles on current health policies (for example British Medical Journal, the Lancet, Health Policy, Disability and Society, Health Services Research).

Research information from Public Health England and the NHS.

Research professional opinion from organisations such as the King’s Fund, Health Foundation, Nuffield Trust.