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.

This week, an anti-migrant activist’s attack on a dinghy with a rescuer still on board took hostility out onto the water, Piddington’s symbolic vote began spreading to other villages near military sites, and a string of stories were undercut by the facts in their own copy. Our analysis of what was covered, what wasn’t, and what the sector can do with it.