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This daily newsletter tells you what you need to know about the day’s top refugee stories and highlights some of the best refugee-related reporting, analysis and videos from across the web.  Unlike a lot of  refugee news it always ends with a good news story. http://www.unhcr.org/refugeebrief/

Al Weiwei travels around the world, and finds a globalised story of desolation and desperation. He doesn’t arrive at answers, but he engages with the subject in fiercely human terms and he compellingly shows that migration is itself a new condition of global market forces, which have disrupted peoples the way world war did a […]

This report demonstrates the impact of the 2013 legal aid cuts on immigration, family and education law, and provides recommendations to the government to take steps to address this impact. It highlights that alternates to legal aid are not working, and without funding for legal advice, children and young people have been left homeless, without legal […]

When: SATURDAY 3 MARCH 12.30PM Where? BRIGGATE, BY BODY SHOP https://www.facebook.com/events/1857058604585752/ Last Wednesday, 120 people held in immigration detention at Yarl’s Wood started a hunger strike. On Monday they have started an all-out strike, refusing to work. A group of women have staged a sit-in outside the Home Office department within the centre. Demands and […]

PATH Yorkshire is offering FREE English/ESOL classes and Employment help and support to Leeds residents who have indefinite leave to remain, on spouse visa, Eastern Europeans/EU citizens, with permission to work but not currently working Free Services provided by PATH Yorkshire: One-to-one help and support towards getting jobs English/ESOL Classes – Entry 1, 2, 3 […]

WY Playhouse Young Company are looking to recruit creative, curious and collaborative artists aged 18 – 25 years old from all backgrounds and disciplines to join the West Yorkshire Playhouse Young Company. Auditions will take place on Monday 12 March. Applications can be made via the website, or through the application form      

Last week we put out a call to LMP members to contribute to a consultation on ending destitution amongst people with no recourse to public funds. Ruth from PAFRAS coordinated the response of some LMP members which you can read here. Enormous thanks to everyone who contributed: Ruth Davany, PAFRAS, Dave Paterson, Unity in Poverty […]

This looks like an interesting resource for measuring your org’s impact on wellbeing:  https://whatworkswellbeing.org/measure “The What Works Centre for Wellbeing is an independent body developing robust, accessible and useful evidence that governments, businesses, communities and people can use to improve wellbeing across the UK. In this guide we at the Centre have brought together the […]

Background The Leeds Health and Wellbeing Board have created a sub group called the Migrant Health Board. This group will report directly into both the Health and Wellbeing Board and Leeds Strategic Migration Board.   The Migrant Health Board met for the first time on Thursday 22nd February, and was Chaired by Ian Cameron, Director of […]

Via Asylum Matters Here are the immigration statistics for October to December 2017. Key asylum figures are below and you can find the data tables here. The most notable finding is that the backlog of cases pending an initial decision for more than 6 months has grown by 39% (from 10,552 in Q3 to 14,650 […]

A quick reminder that the Refugee Week Steering group meeting will be on Monday 26 February, 10.00 am at One Community Centre

One of those websites you find hiding in plain sight healthinleeds.org.uk provides basic info on accessing health services in  Polish Lithuanian Czech and Romanian