The Wakefield Asylum Team is a member of the Yorkshire and Humberside Regional Consortium for Asylum Seekers and Refugees. We are contracted with the Home Office as part of their dispersal programme to provide properties in the Wakefield District.

At the present we are housing a number of asylum seekers in these properties. Additionally we support unaccompanied asylum seeker children who have made their way to Wakefield unofficially.

We accept asylum seekers on the basis of language clusters and the predominant nationalities who have come to this area are Kurdish Iraqi, Iranian, Albanian and Kosovan. More recently we have received asylum seekers from African countries.

Each asylum seeker has a caseworker and monthly residency checks are completed on all our properties. There are close ties with the services for refugees.

The team includes staff from a range of backgrounds including social care, housing, education, health and the police.