This free training event is open to professionals and volunteers who work with vulnerable adults and children. When? Tue, 23 April 2019, 10:00 – 13:00 Where? LIFE Church Bradford, Wapping Road, Bradford BD3 0EQ Aims and Objectives: On completion of this workshop, delegates will be able to: Explains what modern slavery is and identify the […]
Archive | March, 2019
Resource of the Week #68: Useful asylum stats and info-graphics published on House of Commons Library
The House of Commons Library recently published this article that includes some helpful graphs and charts depicting up-to-date asylum statistics that could be useful as a resource for presentations, awareness raising and funding bids etc. https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/insights/migration-statistics-how-many-asylum-seekers-and-refugees-are-there-in-the-uk/
Resources: Access to University for refugees and asylum seekers from STAR, Refugee Council via Migration Yorkshire
We try not to repeat content too much on the LMP blog – but many of you may not have seen (or even remember) our previous Resource of the Week #37 #Alevels Special where we talked about Student Action for Refugees List of Scholarships. So when we saw a recent email from Liz Maddocks at […]
Job: New Roots Employability Officer, 29 hrs/wk, £23k pro rata – PATH Yorkshire
The purpose of this role is to deliver a range of PATH activities within the New Roots project. New Roots is a service run in partnership between RETAS, Refugee Council and PATH Yorkshire. The project is part funded by the EU Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund. Making management of migration flows more efficient across the […]
Faith Community Advice Following Incident in Christchurch, New Zealand—March 2015 – from UK Govt
Refugee and Asylum Seeker Open Day: University of Manchester 27 March 2019
STAR Manchester is hosting an open day at the University of Manchester on Wednesday 27 March. The event is designed for prospective refugee or asylum seeker students to raise their aspirations and provide them with information on opportunities available at the University of Manchester for them. Here’s a link to the Eventbrite page which includes […]
Opinion/Research: No room at the inn: How easy is it for nomadic Gypsies and Travellers to access primary care?
Jon from LASSN writes “We all know the difficulties some migrant community members face when trying to access GPs and Primary Care. Depressingly, this is also the case for Gypsies and Travellers too (as well as people who are homeless or who are sex workers.) As the authors of this report state: “by putting the […]
Yorkshire Ambulance Service Recruitment Day – Tuesday 2 April 2019
Have you ever thought about working for your local ambulance service? If so, this event is for you. What? Yorkshire Ambulance Service Recruitment Day – find out what it is like to work for Yorkshire Ambulance Service and learn about the many opening positions currently available, especially for BAME candidates. PATH Yorkshire will be there […]
Migrants and Refugees in Education: A toolkit for teachers course, 1 April
This British Council course offered through Future Learn will be useful for anyone working with migrants and refugees in an educational context. The next run of the course starts on Monday 1 April and can be accessed here Migrants and Refugees in Education: a tool kit for teachers course link There is also a Facebook […]
Film Night – Moving to Mars 16th April 2019
Garforth Refugee Group will be hosting a screening of ‘Moving to Mars’, a 2009 documentary which follows two Burmese families who are resettled from a refugee camp in Thailand to Sheffield. You can read an interview with the Director here and some reviews here Where? Garforth Methodist Church When? Tues 16th April 7pm The film […]
Resource of the week #67: CIA Simple Sabotage manual
Do you go to meetings? Do they sometimes bore you witless? Have you ever considered the meeting may have been infiltrated by CIA trained Saboteurs? Click on the picture below to be taken to the whole document (which really is a declassified CIA field manual). And please share this widely with Trustees, colleagues, managers or at […]
LMP: Setting our next lot of Strategic Priorities – Thursday 28th March 10:00-12:00
You are warmly invited to help refresh the Strategic Priorities for the Leeds Migration Partnership. For the last 18 months our members have been taking a more focused approach to influencing Health, Housing, and the Safety and Inclusion of Migrants in Leeds. We’d like to update you on what LMP members have achieved so far, and […]