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This will be (almost) the last post of 2017. It’s been a busy year, so we’re talking a couple of weeks off and normal service will be resumed in the New Year.  Thank you from the whole Leeds Migration Partnership team for your ongoing support and interest in making Leeds a kinder, safer and fairer […]

A number of Migration Partnership members signed an open letter this week, urging the Government to bring Asylum Accommodation back under Local Authority Control. It was a rather hurried affair, but the letter was circulated and signatures were solicited/received in about 6 hours flat.  Here’s some coverage of the letter in the Grauniad  https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/dec/14/charities-urge-ministers-to-let-councils-oversee-asylum-seeker-housing And […]

via Kate Smith  Since January 2017, the British Academy has led a programme of work to examine local actions to improve social integration in the UK. “If you could do one thing…” Local actions to promote social integration highlights practical, evidence-based interventions which could be replicated in other parts of the country to improve relationships […]

By Sean Tunnicliffe at Forum Central As you will probably know there is a growing amount of discussion about General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) which come into force in May 2018 and Voluntary Action Leeds (VA-L) have been receiving an increasing amount of calls from local third sector orgs about it (most very worried).  Similarly they’ve had groups contacting them […]

This is a version intended for members of the public. Another more detailed version for signposting services can be requested from  Mary at the Food Aid Network

Asylumwelfarework.com is the website of an academic project run by @lucymayblin focusing on Asylum, Welfare and Work.   There are some great articles and resources posted on here including the excellent 

via David at LASSN “I’ve been sent a website with details of provision for different health organisations around Leeds. Looks really detailed and could be great for signposting” The website is http://www.mecclink.co.uk/ and is aimed at health professionals who want to help the people they meet to live healthier lives by providing simple information, ideas for […]

Solace have now moved to: Oak House Park Lane Leeds LS3 1EL Please contact us on 0113 487 8360

Ok, so it’s not a blog, but once a month the BME Hub at Voluntary Action Leeds do an excellent roundup of things they’ve come across. This is the kind of content they included on November’s edition Leeds Refugee Forum Seeks Trustees Experiences of Mental Health Crisis Services for BME People Support for New Migrants […]

On Wednesday 22nd November the first of the Leeds Migration Partnership – Strategy Group meetings took place at Oak House.  A focus for the meeting was to start to develop priorities for the group – please see the minutes provided  

A few years ago, there used to be loads of umbrella organisations for orgs working in health and social care in Leeds. Each of them represented a different area of work – mental health, learning disabilities, physical and sensory impairments, older people etc.   A while ago they merged under a single banner of “Forum Central” […]

We’ve done a quick analysis of the top 50 posts, and here are the results: