Archive | Policy

Don’t forget – from January 21st, EU citizens and their families will be able to apply to get either settled status through the EU Settlement Scheme. Guidance on settled and pre-settled status for EU citizens and their families.  

Leeds City Council’s Communities Team, supported by Voluntary Action Leeds, are undertaking a review of the support, information, training and advice the local voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations and groups of Leeds need. The Third Sector in Leeds is large and very diverse. The support needs of organisations varies greatly, depending on size, stage […]

The Council are consulting on their upcoming budget. If you have an opinion, now’s your chance to voice it www.leeds.gov.uk/budgetconsultation   

LMP reps attended the Strategic Migration Board on 14th December (See “How does LMP influence things?“) where a number of important policy papers were discussed in some detail.  We’ll circulate the papers from this meeting as soon as we are gioven permission to do so. For the time being, here are some of the papers […]

Regular readers will remember that every once in a while we lift huge chunks of info from Asylum Matters’ Updates. The last one  – sent out on 13th December –  is an absolute corker, so we’ve just cut and pasted it below*. We don’t really cover national news like this at LMP – so perhaps it […]

You might think that by now – after the NHS England Guidance, the briefings from Doctors of the World, and agitation by many orgs – everyone (especially GP surgeries) would know the rules about registering with a GP. Apparently not. So in case the law, NHS Guidance and a sense of right and wrong isn’t […]

via JobCentrePlus Universal Credit full service will roll out for new claims on the 10th of October. Here is an escalation Route-way for any issues you had not been able to resolve for your customer. Please note that the office you will need to contact to resolve an issue for your individual customer will depend […]

ICIBI Extends Deadline until 5th March for Call for Evidence : Asylum Accommodation The Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration is currently gathering evidence for an inquiry into asylum accommodation. They have recently put a call out for written evidence, asking for interested parties to submit evidence to the ICIBI by the 5th March. This is a great […]

ICIBI Call for Evidence : Asylum Accommodation The Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration is currently gathering evidence for an inquiry into asylum accommodation. They have recently put a call out for written evidence, asking for interested parties to submit evidence to the ICIBI by the 25th February 2018. This is a great opportunity to […]