via Ally, the Leeds Voluntary Sector Rep Intake & occupancy – Home Office are seeing approximately 400-450 new arrivals per week. The current hotel population is approximately 9350 and for hotels and circa 10000 for all contingency accommodation (including MOD sites). ASPEN – the asylum support payments contract is in the process of transition to […]
Immigration Surgery – Speak to a Home Office Immigration Officer without fear of being arrested
Call us every Thursday between 13:30—16:30 on 0300 072 1678
Vacancies at Migration Yorkshire
Migration Yorkshire are looking for people with all sorts of skills and backgrounds for several vacancies. The posts are part of ‘Refugee Integration Yorkshire & Humber’ which provides comprehensive support to improve the integration of refugees, with a strategic approach and front-line services, underpinned by research, evidence and refugee participation. Migration Yorkshire [Leeds City Council]: […]
New resources to help young people with sleep problems
The Children’s Society have worked with a group of young refugees to produce a booklet aimed at helping with sleep problems. It’s written by and aimed at young people but the principles are appropriate for anyone who struggles with sleeping. It can be downloaded from https://www.childrenssociety.org.uk//better-sleep and for more information contact [email protected]
RJN ‘s Report on Public’s Perception on Police use of Biometric fingerprint scanner
The Racial Justice Network and Yorkshire Resists have written a new report to draw attention to the impact of the Biometric Services Gateway (mobile fingerprinting) on both the communities targeted by police and the wider public. The report discusses issues that arose from an online survey (115 participants) conducted on the public’s perception of the […]
SIDE Labs: 6-month Design & No-code Apprenticeships
SIDE labs are looking for two apprentices to be part of Academy 2021, starting March 1st. You’ll join the SIDE team and learn the core skills of no-code development: discovery, design, development, product management, workshop facilitation and tea drinking. This is knitted together by Webflow, a website creation tool that radically changes the skill set required to deliver impactful […]
LMP Zoom chat Tuesday 26th January, 2021 12:30-13:45
As ever, you are invited to a lunchtime session where we can all catch up on what’s changed/important kick around some ideas and to find ways of claiming your £35 an hour for just turning up. And, as usual, the agenda is set by the people who turn up. And even if you’ve not much […]
CALL FOR EVIDENCE ON HOME OFFICE PREPAREDNESS FOR COVID-19
CALL FOR EVIDENCE ON HOME OFFICE PREPAREDNESS FOR COVID-19 As part of the recent Home Affairs Select Committee inquiry into the Home Office’s preparedness for COVID-19 in asylum accommodation, the Home Affairs Committee has issued another call for evidence. The deadline to respond is 12pm on Thursday 4th February. “The Committee invites further written evidence […]
Weekly update from Strategic Migration Partnership/Home Office
Here are the notes from the HO/SMP call on 14 Jan: Vaccinations – Home Office have received an update from PHE and will work through this before deciding how to include SMPs in the discussion. Shielding – Home Office are seeking confirmation from PHE to enable them to share lists of shielding SUs with relevant […]
MEMEC Virtual ESOL classes for Winter & Spring 2021
Dear all, Just a quick update, MEMEC college is still running virtually from Monday to Friday from 6pm to 8pm to all ESOL learners from any status and level. To refer your clients, click on the registration form Please feel free to circulate the updated flyer and the link to your clients and community. For […]
EU Settlement Scheme and Benefit support during the Grace Period
Dear all, As you may be aware, the Brexit Transition Period came to an end on the 31st December 2020 and EU nationals and their non-EU family members have until the 30th of June 2021 to secure a new immigration status under the EU settlement scheme. We are organising a number of online community awareness […]
The Allen Lane Foundation – Social Cohesion Programme
This is a new funding programme, which has been established to provide support to local communities. It will focus on funding projects that aim to proactively break down barriers and tensions between different groups of people, and build a more cohesive and inclusive community for all. The Social Cohesion programme will look to support grassroots […]