This is the West Yorkshire Group that brings local Authorities, Home Office and their various contractors (Mears, Migrant Help) together, to discuss and plan Migration. You’ll remember Ally from PAFRAS is the Leeds VCS rep. These notes are excellent and contain really helpful information from both Migrant Help and Mears, who have both withdrawn from […]
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Asylum Support Payments to increase by £1.22/wk (24p/wk if you live in a hotel)
info via Cath Ward at Public Health, words and links by Jon Beech at LASSN In late January – the Minister for Safe and Legal Migration wrote The following letter gives even more detail, including the way this £1.22 (3.1%) increase has been calculated in line with CPI. People in hotel accomodation will have their […]
Operation PITTING cases in community (refugees from Kabul) – escalating cases for caseworking by the Home Office
By Samantha Powell on behalf of Safer Stronger Communities Team, LCC on 24th February 2022 in Policy & Research
via Sam Powell at LCC The Home Office have requested any enquires in relation to families who were evacuated from Kabul to the UK as part of Operation PITTING (August 2021) who are not currently living in Home Office bridging hotel accommodation or in properties are facilitated through the Local Authority (LA) resettlement programme. This […]
Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS) – Info from UK Gov January 2022
By Samantha Powell on behalf of Safer Stronger Communities Team, LCC on 25th January 2022 in Policy & Research
The Minister for Afghan Resettlement formally opened the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS) on 6 January 2022. The statement is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/oral-statement-on-the-afghan-citizens-resettlement-scheme Guidance on the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS) is available here: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/afghan-citizens-resettlement-scheme#full-publication-update-history
Asylum Matters Yorkshire & Humber update – 8th December 2021
By Jon from LASSN on 9th December 2021 in Activism & Campaigning, Destitution & Housing, Opinion, Policy & Research
via Mary at Asylum Matters Urgent action: Please can I also draw your attention to the West Yorkshire joint statement against the Anti-refugee Bill, for which we are now seeking signatories. Please consider signing this statement on behalf of your group/organisation and please share with your wider networks if you can as we need as […]
Weekly news summary by Migration Yorkshire
Migration Yorkshire are great at finding and sharing information – like the Info Hub and the Quarterly Updates . Their most recent development is a weekly summary of policy and other things. As you’d expect, their scope is a lot wider than the excellent Asylum Matters briefings – and they bring a regional twist you […]
Asylum Matters Yorkshire and Humber update: 16th September 2021
By Jon from LASSN on 22nd September 2021 in Activism & Campaigning, Destitution & Housing, Event, Jobs, Opinion, Policy & Research
Thanks as usual to Asylum Matters for such an excellent briefing, which as usual, we produce in full Ongoing advocacy #Anti-Refugee Bill Campaigners and others continue to point out how the measures in the Government’s Nationality and Borders Bill – or anti-refugee bill – will impact on all people seeking sanctuary in the UK, including […]
Tell Black Health Agency what you think about the acronym BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic)
BHA for equality in health and social care, are carrying out a survey on the use of the acronym BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic). This is in the context of debates lately as to whether there are alternative phrases that would fair better in referring to certain communities. Please access the link below for […]
Resource of the week: Too much information? Let the Refugee Council help
There’s so much changing at the moment, it’s hard to keep track. Refugee Council continue to produce excellent briefings – like this one which summarises all the main policy changes. Other summaries are available, obv, but this is quite excellent, and we commend it to you. Refugee Council continue to produce excellent briefings – like […]
Asylum Matters update 22th July 2021 – Bill second reading, resources for asylum support rates review and more
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 […]
Leeds Regional Report, from Migration Yorkshire July-September 2021
All killer, no filler – the usual excellent and comprehensive report from the good people at Migration Yorkshire about the situation in Leeds and the surreounding areas
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 […]