This is the list of documents available for the submission By Councillor Kim Long:- "Council notes World Refugee Day, which occurred on 20th June, and that 2021 marks the 70th Anniversary of the 1951 UN Refugee Convention. Council joins more than 75 Scottish organisations in opposing the UK Government's New Plan for Immigration, and supports the new UK-wide coalition Together With Refugees in their calls for a more effective, fair and humane approach to the UK's refugee system. Council opposes the recent re-starting of immigration enforcement raids in our city. Council asserts that immigration raids are unnecessary, expensive, harmful, and re-traumatising to people who are already traumatised; that such raids should never be used routinely, and should only be deployed when there is a danger to the public. Council calls for Police Scotland to review their position in the Home Office's Immigration Enforcement Operation Notification Process, and asks that the City Convener for Equalities and Human Rights writes to Police Scotland in that regard. Council reaffirms that people seeking asylum should have the right to work and that there should be adequate support to ensure people can live in communities in dignity, not destitution. Council also notes with concern the recent crisis created by Home Office mishandling of the change of asylum support payment card provider, notes that this left thousands of individuals and families in Glasgow and access the UK with either no or inadequate access to money and therefore without food, toiletries, baby formula or nappies. Council understands that people using existing payment cards were advised by the Home Office to "stock up" because there would be no access to funds for a weekend; believes this is not an acceptable way to deliver service change, notes that it is a financial impossibility for people living on £5.66 per day to stock up on supplies, and that the crisis has lasted for several weeks. Council highlights the emergency response provided by Glasgow's third sector over many weeks, which came at great cost in both emergency grants provided and in staff time for these organisations. Council offers sincere gratitude to the charities that stepped into the vacuum left by the Home Office but deeply regrets that this was necessary in an entirely foreseeable and avoidable crisis. Council therefore asks the City Convener for Equalities to write to the Home Secretary to convey Glasgow's expectation that any emergency grants provided to individuals in this crisis will not be clawed back by the Home Office, and that all due support back-payments will be automatically provided to asylum seekers adversely affected by this transition. Furthermore, that those organisations in Glasgow and, indeed across the rest of the UK, who filled the crisis gap created by Home Office recklessness, should be recompensed for their emergency work and expenditure.".

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