The Leeds Migration Partnership Strategy Group are meeting on: Date: Thursday 18th April 2024 (10am-12pm) Venue:10:00 – 12:00 at LASSN, 22-23 Blayds Yard, Leeds, LS1 4AD Meeting theme: Review and Refresh of LMP priorities The next LMP strategy group meeting will focus on a review and refresh of the LMP priorities. Currently, the information on […]
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Leeds Migration Partnership Strategy Meeting – 30th April 2024
The Leeds Migration Partnership Strategy Group are meeting on Date: Tuesday the 30th April 2024 (10am-12pm) Venue: RETAS, 233 – 237 Roundhay Road, Leeds, LS8 4HS Meeting theme: Asylum Discontinuations and LMP and Upcoming Elections For the key items on asylum discontinuations, Leeds Housing Options, DWP, and RETAS will be sharing updates. For the LMP […]
Uploading your own content to the LMP
We’ve added a button on the right-hand side of the homepage and at the bottom of our weekly emails to make it easier for you to upload your content. Huge thanks to Will at Bradford CoS for inspiring this – we can’t believe we didn’t do this before.
Leeds Council’s decision to become a Council of Sanctuary – and update April 24
We’ve reported on this a few times – and you may consider this old news – but now that all of this has been signed off and the political process is over, the real work begins. Here’s the document presented to the Exec Board of the council which outlined what a Council of Sanctuary is […]
LMP – thank you to LCC and our 26 anonymous donors
About 12 months ago, we asked you for your help to pay the £700 a year it costs to keep the Blog going. Last year, our friends at the Council kindly stepped in to meet some of these costs and 26 of you dug deep and contributed to our running costs. Thank you to everyone […]
LMP Operations Group, Monday 4th March 2024
Apologies for the latter reminder. Every 3 months, The Leeds Migration Partnership Operations Group meets to catch up on recent developments in migration support services. We’re next meeting (today) Monday 4th March 2024 10am-12am at One Community Centre, Cromwell Rise. Come along and share what you know, and ask about things you don’t. All welcome. […]
Notes of Leeds Strategic Migration Board 6 Feb 2024
Please see attached notes of the Leeds Strategic Migration Board meeting on 6 Feb 2024. The LSMB is where senior folks in the city come to discuss issues of migration, so what appears in these minutes reflects their understanding of the key issues, and directly informs the actions they take and the decisions they make. […]
LMP Strategy Group Action Notes – Thursday 11th January 2024
LMP strategy meetings includes a key theme item where partners spend time having a focused discussion. The notes from these discussions are shared within the minutes of each strategy meeting. To make the important key theme information more accessible to all LMP partners we are posting these separately so it is much easier to identify, […]
Papers for the West Yorkshire Sub Regional Migration Group, 24th January 2024
Here are the papers for the next West Yorkshire Sub Regional Migration Group which will take place on 31st January 2024. You’ll remember we posted the Minutes of the October 23 meeting here. The meeting is attended by local authority representatives, Home Office, Voluntary Sector Reps (for Leeds this is Ally Swadling at PAFRAS and […]
Factors to consider before signposting a customer to apply for a Bond or Rent in Advance (RIA) through Discretionary Housing Payments (DHP) – January 24
This is an excellent summary for Housing Advisers about accessing Discretionary Housing Payments from our friends at Leeds Housing Options. It’s a bit technical, but so are all aspects of housing payments to people on low incomes (alas). Given the current pressure on accessing private rented accomodation for new refugees, this info could not have […]
Leeds Migration Partnership Strategy Meeting – 11th January 2024
The Leeds Migration Partnership Strategy Group are meeting on Date: Thursday the 11th January 2024 (10am-12pm) Venue: PAFRAS, Unit 24 Unity Business Centre, 26 Roundhay Road, LS7 1AB. Meeting theme: Asylum Discontinuations and Asylum Hotels and Optimisation For the key items, on asylum discons the council’s Migration Team, Leeds Housing Options, DWP, RETAS and the […]
Support for refugees, asylum seekers and other migrants over Christmas 2023
Telephone support Migrant Help telephone advice and guidance for asylum support, and repairs issues is now open 24/7 – 0808 8010 503 To report a problem to Migrant Help/Mears, check the email address list. Also check (what Migrant Help can and cannot help with) Refugee Council’s Telephone infoline – 0808 196 7272 is open Monday and Thursdays between 9.30 am and 12.30 […]