Scotland Tonight special report: The Battle to Belong #news #report #scotland

 

If you were asked to stop receiving benefits and find new accomodation in 28 days after months, and in some cases years, of not being allowed to work - could you do it? That's what people have to do once they receive refugee status in Scotland - and charities say the situation is getting worse. More than 1800 asylum claims are expected to be approved in Glasgow, as the Home Office attemps to clear a record backlog of cases. But it's feared that will lead to more than a thousand refugees needing social housing - and if there's no where to place them - they may end up homeless. Scotland Tonight examined a system stretched to breaking point.