Ben Cook’s article on the reduction in National Asylum Support Service accommodation gives the impression that Safe Haven will no longer be providing housing for NASS after April this year (4 March, page 7).

This is not so – we have agreed a 15-month contract extension with NASS under which we will be continuing to provide about 3000 bed spaces from the beginning of April.

This figure reflects the fall in numbers of asylum seekers coming into the country over the past year or so and at the same time releases accommodation for other uses, including the section 4 accommodation, which, as Jim Steinke rightly indicates, is in desperately short supply in the region.

Celia Cashman, chief executive Safe Haven Yorkshire

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Housing Today