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VCS update from Migration Yorkshire, December 23

Migrant Help update Oct 2023 Please find attached the latest update from Migrant Help. [Not attached] Do you have an idea for a new piece of research or evaluation that could help your organisation, or the sector? Migration Yorkshire has established a Yorkshire and Humber Migration Research Network for professional researchers as part of Refugee Integration Yorkshire […]

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“It’s not one single trauma, it’s hundreds of traumas” New films highlight mental health crisis among refugees and asylum seekers.

Solace are proud to be part of a collaboration with University of Cambridge to produce research and films on the serious mental health issues faced by refugees and asylum seekers. Please take a look using this link “Asylum seekers are five times more likely to have a mental health difficulty and 60% or more have […]

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Do you know anyone willing to talk about the impact of shortened evictions from Home Office accommodation?

IMIX, media specialists in the migration and asylum sector, are looking the highlight the human impact of the Home Office’s 7-day eviction policies on asylum accommodation and the homelessness emergency it is causing around the country. They are seeking people with experiences of unstable housing, homelessness and eviction who, with safeguarding and support from them, […]

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Asylum Matters Update: 17th October 2023

Advocacy and campaigning initiatives Communities Not Camps  People who were removed from the Bibby Stockholm barge following the discovery of legionella have spoken of their fear after being told they will have to return to the facility as early as this week.  The Mayor of Portland has launched a new legal challenge against Dorset Council’s […]

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Asylum Matters Advocacy and Campaigns 3/10/23

Advocacy and campaigning initiatives Home Secretary’s speech  The news over the past week has been dominated by the Home Secretary’s appalling speech to the American Enterprise Institute in Washington DC, in which she took aim at the UN 1951 Refugee Convention, claimed that being LGBTQ+ or a woman should not be enough to qualify for […]

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National signposting : useful organisations list

Conversation over Borders offers a new national listing: “a collaborative extensive list of organisations and charities working with displaced people in the UK. To help this to grow you can submit new organisations or resources to the list using this form. We hope for the list to continue growing and become a thorough network of […]

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Experiences of Racism in Civil Society Organisations – share your experiences with ACEVO and Voice4Change England by 11th September 2023

[Editorial note: sorry for not posting this sooner – we only saw this today] ACEVO and Voice4Change England are inviting people to take their survey to inform a new programme of work on supporting mainstream civil society on anti-racism and race equity called Home Truths 2.  Black and ethnic minoritised people who have worked in civil […]

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Hospitality and Sanctuary for All: The Hook Lecture 2023

How can we respond to the call to welcome refugees to Leeds and build a city of sanctuary for all? The annual Hook Lecture returns this year as we welcome Revd Dr Inderjit Bhogal, former President of the British Methodist Conference, and Founder of the City of Sanctuary network and movement, passionately committed to the […]

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New policy update on discontinuations/evictions from Home Office accommodation and support – August 2023

“As a general principle, the Home Office should give people notice that their support is going to stop so they can plan what they will do next On 1st August 2023, the Home Office announced a change in procedure for the discontinuation of asylum support for people who have received a decision on their asylum […]

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