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Archive | June, 2021
Solace 15 Years Anniversary Fundraising Challenge
Our lovely friend and colleague, Sarah, who spends Monday to Friday working therapeutically with refugees and asylum seekers, is now spending her annual leave on an epic physical challenge to climb 15 peaks in 15 consecutive days, as part of Solace’s 15th anniversary celebrations – and in conjunction with this years’ Refugee Week campaign ‘We […]
Job: Peer and Community Researcher Opportunity, FT £27-£29k – Migration Yorkshire, closing date 14th June 2021
Migration Yorkshire is recruiting peer researchers and community researchers to work on some exciting research projects (as part of the Refugee Integration Yorkshire and Humber project). Job title: Community researcher Organisation: Migration Yorkshire [Leeds City Council] Location: Leeds Website: https://www.migrationyorkshire.org.uk Salary: SO1 – £27,741.00 – £29,577.00 Additional information: Fixed term to 31 December 2022 Closing date: 11.59 pm on 14 June 2021 […]
Message from Mears regarding communication with new arrivals – w/c 7th June 2021
Following the recent trend of seeing groups of Vietnamese service users leave hotels shortly after arrival, I would like to share with you some information regarding what is currently on going in order to discourage this from happening and to then identify these people if it does. A working group has been set up to […]
Info from Migration Yorkshire – w/c 7th June 2021
HO/SMP (Home Office/Strategic Migration Partnership) weekly COVID call 03.06.2021 Intake and occupancy: There has a high level of intake over the recent days Capacity is ok in Initial Accommodation space for the short-term, but new arrivals are taking some of this capacity. Home Office will keep some hotels open rather than stand up new ones […]
Migration Yorkshire VCS Engagement workshops during July 2021
Migration Yorkshire is excited to be able to offer a series of VCS Engagement workshops from 5th-16th July. These sessions will be hosted by Migration Yorkshire with a number of guest speakers, and are designed so that the Voluntary and Community can share issues and solutions in a safe space. Places are limited, so early […]
LMP Zoom Chat on 15th June 2021 will host Migration & Homelessness Working Group
Migration and Homelessness Action Group (Part of the Leeds Migration Partnership) Tuesday 15th June, 12:30 – 1.45pm The LMP meeting will start at 12.30 and the Homeless Charter agenda will run from 12.45 till 1.45pm. The minutes from the last meeting are here. Homeless Charter Agenda: Lived experience stories and actions Supporting people with No […]
Leeds Migration Partnership Strategy Meeting Notes – 12th May 2021
Thank you to all who were able to attend the Leeds Migration Partnership strategy meeting, on the 12th of May. The action notes from the meeting can be accessed below. Key highlights of the meeting included a review of the LMP priorities, discussions about the impact of recent changes regarding negative cessations and the new […]
New ASPEN card update 7th June 2021
The HO has issued a lot of replacement cards to people on support. Approx. 6,000. This is an effort to try and correct the missing cards/ cards sent to the wrong address. There was an acknowledgement that this might cause further problems/ confusion but the HO has made the decision that they needed to take […]
Leeds Hardship Fund for Destitute Asylum Seekers – Steering Group 10am 11th June 2021
As discussed at the last LMP catch-up meeting – Steering Group Members need to decide if the Hardship Fund has a role to play in easing destitution in Leeds over Summer 2021. Please find attached the Hardship Arrangements for 2020-21 – (how people accessed it last year) the report for the last winter 2020-2021 and […]
Save the date: Leeds MPs confirmed for asylum round table at LMP Chat on Tuesday 29th June 2021
More details to follow, but Hilary Benn and Alex Sobel are already confirmed they’ll be coming along to the LMP Chat, 12:30 on 29th June – and we’re hoping to attact even more. We’re hoping to run it along the lines of Question Time – where people can ask questions in advance, and are then […]
Helathy Start Vouchers to include children with NRPF
via Esther at Zest Healthy Start Vouchers will now be accessible by Households who do not have recourse to public funds. “The UK government will extend the Healthy Start voucher scheme to thousands of disadvantaged children under four years of age who were previously denied the support because of their families’ immigration status.” Firstly just […]