another update from Asylum Matters Ongoing Advocacy Nationality and Borders Bill/ New Plan for Immigration This week the Nationality and Borders Bill passed second reading in the House of Commons with 366 MPs voting in favour and 265 voting against. The Home Secretary, Priti Patel, introduced the Bill by noting that the Government was acting […]
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LMP Zoom Catch Up Tuesday 27th July 2021 12:30-13:45
So much has happened since we last met in June – with Hilary Benn answering questions from LMP Members. This time, we hope we’ll be joined by reps from Asylum Help, Mears Housing and Migration Yorkshire – so they’ll be on first. In addition, we anticipate members will want talk about The end of Lockdown, […]
Leeds University publish study on bereavement support to people from diverse communities
Grieving friends and relatives from ethnic minority backgrounds are suffering from a lack of appropriate help to cope with losing a loved one, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers say. The scarcity of data on the services that are available means providers do not know how support should be delivered to ensure they are suitable for […]
Weekly Home Office Update w/c 1st July 2021
Updates: HO/SMP weekly Covid call 01/07/2021: Negative cessations – Home Office working towards step 4 (July 19) as a potential resumption date for negative cessations. Home Office building capacity plan around negative cessations and will communicate when a decision is made. Intake and occupancy – Intake has been high this last week and a number […]
Asylum Matters Yorkshire & Humber update 8th July 2021
via Mary Brandon of Asylum Matters In particular, I’d like to draw your attention to the Day of Action to abolish immigration bail reporting on 15th July at Waterside Court in Leeds. More info here and below. Hope to see some of you there! Ongoing Advocacy Nationality and Borders Bill/ New Plan for Immigration The […]
Chapeltown Walk-in Vaccination Clinic at Roscoe Methodist Church various dates July 2021
Chapeltown Walk-in Vaccination Clinic at Roscoe Methodist Church Venue: Roscoe Methodist Church, 132 Chapeltown Road, LS7 4EE Dates: Tuesday 6th July, Thursday 8thJuly, Tuesday 13th July, Thursday 15th July Times: 3.00pm – 7.00pm Vaccine available: Pfizer – for both first and second doses Age: 18 and over Other information: the clinic will be a walk in appointment […]
Leeds Uni to lead resesarch into Covid-19 and its impact on people from black and other racialised backgrounds
via Lucy at NACCOM Beginning this month, the 18-month project will explore how emergency COVID-19 powers are disproportionately impacting people from BAME backgrounds and how the pandemic is affecting care and caring, as well as mental and physical health and wellbeing across all ages. Using their findings, the team will make recommendations to policymakers on […]
LMP Chat on Tuesday 29th June 2021 – Meet the Politicians
Asylum Matters and LMP have invited all our local MPs to join LMP at 12:30 on Tuesday 29th June 2021, to have a chinwag about Leeds, Migration, Parliament – and to answer your questions. What can MPs do to help migrants living in Leeds? Can they have any impact on legislation? Can they stop things from happening […]
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 […]
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 […]
Asylum Matters – Y&H Update 28th May 2021
Ongoing advocacy Together with Refugees launch and next steps The Together with Refugees campaign launched on 10th May, with over 200 organisations and individuals now on board, taking to social media to call for a kinder, fairer and more effective asylum system. Some of the highlights from activity across the Together with Refugees coalition include: […]