Jazz at HEART are holding a concert/fundraiser for Refugees and Asylum Seeker Organisations on Saturday 11th Feb from 1.00pm till late. More info will be posted here, as we hear about it For more info about Jazz at Heart, please click on the logo below
Women Coming Together – Breaking the Silence about Abusive Relationships – 6th December
Papers for the Leeds Migration Partnership, 7th December
Just in case you’d not noticed, all the papers for the Migration Partnership have been posted in https://www.leedsmultiagency.org.uk/dropbox/ and which includes this excellent paper by Liz Maddocks from Migration Yorkshire, a Regional Report on Leeds.
Vacancies: Support Workers with Refugee Council – c£24k
Two new Project worker roles http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/jobs/4809_project_worker_leeds_york_wakefield http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/jobs/4810_project_worker_north_yorskhire Closing date 19th December 2016
Asylum Stats from Refugee Council
A neat briefing by Refugee Council: very accessible, very clear: people seeking asylum still make up about 7% of new arrivals to the UK; applications for asylum in the UK represents about 3% of the total applications in the EU. Read more here and pass it on http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/latest/news/4805_top_20_facts_about_refugees_and_asylum_seekers
Big Community Chat -Tuesday 6th December
Waging peace in Harehills – at Shine from 6-9 on Tuesday 6th December
Free ESOL Classes in LS9
There will be a new ESOL class (free of charge) which running from January 2017 in Leeds 9. The classes will be held every Friday morning, 10.00am-12 noon (term time only) and will be at Entry 1 level. The maximum number for a class is up to 15 students. To refer yourself or someone […]
Broken links in the LMAM archives?
Several people have reported broken links with some of the achived posts and so we’ve checked (and updated) everything posted in the last couple of months. We currently don’t have capacity to do this for the 400 or so other posts there have been on the blog, but we’ll try to do this gradually. If […]
Housing and the Migration Crisis Conference, 13/14th December
A conference is being held at St George’s Conference Centre on 13/14 December 9-5pm The conference themes are housing and migration crisis and will be attended by a wide range of researchers presenting their work as well as activist and practice discussion. More details here http://www.sociology.leeds.ac.uk/events/2016/call-for-papers-struggles-over-home-in-a-time-of-crisis Day tickets are £20 and include lunch, refreshments and […]
Safeguarding Adults Training
Apologies to all those who booked on the recent Safeguarding Adults with No Recourse to Public Funds training, that was cancelled at short notice. Changes in the way Leeds Safeguarding Adults Partnership are delivering their training mean that courses of this type will no longer be available. However we are informed that: Level 1 and 2 […]
New NRPF Guidance – Assessing Children and Families
Abdou from Children’s Society just drew our attention to this new guidance on Assessing Children and Families who have no recourse to public funds (NRPF). Here’s a link to the main NRPF download pages http://www.nrpfnetwork.org.uk/guidance/Pages/default.aspx
ASPEN asylum support card – to be rolled out in 2017
via mike@shsh The Home Office intends to introduce an ASPEN card (Asylum Support Enablement) to replace the ARC card and enable asylum seekers to access their s95 cash support. The ASPEN card will be a CHIP & PIN card. Asylum support payments will be uploaded onto the card and applicants can then access their support […]