Can’t Stay. Can’t Go. Refused asylum seekers who cannot be returned 39 5.2 Red Cross The Red Cross should: 1. Use our relationships with government and parliamentarians to help solicit responses from embassies when people are failing to receive attention. 2. Independently and in partnership with other organisations operating in the sector, look to develop an operational response that supports service users during embassy appointments for the purposes of gathering evidence of their visit and to advocate on their behalf, when appropriate. 3. Review our current policy of providing 12 weeks of destitution support and take appropriate action to ensure the support we offer is sufficient to deal with the long-term destitution faced by this group. 4. Provide training for and raise awareness among our staff and volunteers on the issue of statelessness, including training on how to apply for exceptional case funding for Stateless applications. 5. Routinely capture data on this group to support wider efforts to understand how many refused asylum seekers there are who cannot be returned.
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