This week, protests in Gosport turned a Channel rescue into a flashpoint, the home secretary’s words about women crossing collided with policies that keep families apart, and local councils began turning their backs on frontline support. Our analysis of what was covered, what wasn’t, and what the sector can do with it.

This week, Shabana Mahmood reopened refugee resettlement on terms that framed compassion as a reward for control, the end of the one in, one out deal landed in a week of Channel deaths and damning evidence about enforcement, and Reform-run councils turned their attention to the people who help refugees. Our analysis of what was covered, what wasn’t, and what the sector can do with it.

IMIX runs a Media Advisory Panel: a small group of journalists who meet every quarter, with an agenda set by people with lived experience of the asylum and immigration system. Two sessions in, we share how it works, and what journalists have told us that any sector charity doing comms can use.