Councils have statutory duties to provide accommodation and financial support to safeguard and promote the welfare of families, adults with care needs, and care leavers who are at risk of homelessness, or have insufficient income to meet their basic living needs, but cannot access benefits or local authority housing assistance due to their immigration status. Support alleviating homelessness, destitution, and poverty experienced by people with no recourse to public funds is usually provided by social care teams or no recourse to public funds teams.

This report draws on information recorded by 91 councils in England, Scotland, and Wales on NRPF Connect regarding individual households with no recourse to public funds who were referred for, or received, statutory support between 1 April 2024 and 31 March 2025 (‘2024–25’).  The data provides evidence of collective costs and caseloads when accommodation and financial support is provided to households, as well as the immigration status of people who were referred for, or received, local authority support. The report also analyses the work of the Home Office NRPF team over NRPF Connect.

For a list of councils providing data, see Appendix A.

For more information about the dataset, statutory social care duties and who has no recourse to public funds, see Appendix B.