with best wishes from Vicky at Migration Yorkshire
NRPF: Praxis report on cost of living crisis
Please find below a new report by Praxis using results on a recent survey on the impact of the cost of living crisis for people with no recourse to public funds.
Cost of living crisis and NRPF — Praxis
NRPF – quarterly immigration statistics
The latest quarterly immigration and protection statistics were published on 25 May providing data up to the end of March 2023. Included is some data on applications for a change of conditions to remove the NRPF condition from one’s leave to remain. Here are the main highlights:
- A total of 935 applications were made in Q1 of 2023.
- Out of the 814 applications made, 384 decisions were made with 551 outstanding. 297 applications were accepted and 87 refused.
- The average waiting time for a decision in Q3 40 days.
- The acceptance rate was 77% (this is the highest it has been since 2020).
- Ages 31-40, followed by 41-50 and under 18s were the age categories with the highest number of applicants.
- 583 (62%) applications were from female applicants, 352 from male (38%).
- The top nationalities were Nigeria (156), India (103), and Ghana (100).
- There were 5 applications from British National (Overseas) status holders and 6 applications from Hong Kong SAR nationals in Q1 of 2023.
Note: there is no official government data published on NRPF applications at a regional level, only national. This data can tell us about the numbers coming forward to apply, their outcomes and nationalities as well as shedding some light into what communities have high numbers of people living with the no recourse to public funds condition.
Please contact [email protected] if you have any questions about the data.
Home Office press release on asylum hotels
Please find below the press release from the Home Office from Monday 5th June regarding plans to move asylum seekers from hotels into new accommodation sites including new two new vessels.
Thousands of asylum seekers to be moved out of hotels – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Legal claims over asylum seekers’ phones
Further to the article in The Guardian – Home Office faces legal claims over seizure of asylum seekers’ phones | Home Office | The Guardian – The Investigatory Power’s Commissioner’s Office (IPCO) will be writing out to all people it knows who has been affected by this and knows where they are. Please see this link from IPO for more details.
A date for your diary: Yorkshire Integration Festival 2023
Following the phenomenal success of last year’s event, the Yorkshire Integration Festival 2023 is heading to the Peace Gardens and Winter Garden in Sheffield on Saturday 30th September 2023. This family-friendly event will celebrate the integration of refugees, and all our communities in Yorkshire and Humber, through music, food, performances and other activities – further details about the programme will be released in the coming months. The Festival will be open to the public and admission will be free so we’d be grateful if you could share this information with your networks.
We are also now accepting expressions of interest from performers, migrant community groups and local small businesses to be involved with the event – we are particularly keen to hear from those with a refugee background. If you, or anyone in your networks, would like to be involved, please email [email protected] by Friday 23rd June 2023 with the details and we’ll be in touch.
Project 17 training : Introduction to support options for individuals with NRPF
Project 17 is offering online training sessions for advisors and other professionals working with individuals with No Recourse to Public Funds.
This introductory session focuses on the wider support options available for individuals with NRPF. It is aimed at professionals who would like to improve their knowledge on these issues and who occasionally work with individuals and families with No Recourse to Public Funds.
The session will cover:
· Understanding ‘no recourse to public funds’
· Identifying immigration status and entitlements
· Issues and barriers faced by adults with NRPF
· Asylum support (Section 95, 98, and 4)
· National Referral Mechanism
· Care Act 2014
· Destitute Domestic Violence Concession
· Section 17
· Change of Conditions
Please note, if you have already attended our standard training that the material is very similar.
These sessions are happening online from 10.00 am -12-30 pm. You can sign up for the individual session here 13 June, 10 August, 12 October
Bradford Literature Festival – Free Tickets for Community & Cultural Groups
Please see below from the Director of Bradford Literature Festival:
This year’s Bradford Literature Festival runs from Friday 23rd June until Sunday 2nd July and features around 500 events. These include everything from comedy to qawwali, from Bollywood to the Brontes, from science to sport to Shakespeare. We have events on food, fantasy, faith, fiction and film screenings, as well as a series of free family fun days in City Park:
https://www.bradfordlitfest.co.uk/
As part of our commitment to ensuring that everyone is able to access festival events, we are inviting arts, culture, community groups and projects (ESOL, faith-based, elderly women’s group, reading and writing groups, arts collectives, sport and wellbeing, etc etc) no matter how informal, to register with the festival. The group does NOT need to be incorporated. We can then issue a unique code allowing the group to book free festival tickets for its members. If you would like a code for your particular group, please get in touch with the following details:
- – Group / Project name
- – Purpose of group
- – Number of active members
- – Key postcode areas where members are based
- – Main contact person for the group
- – Postcode for main contact person
- – Mobile Number
If you are involved with another community group / project or if you know of other groups who would benefit from free festival tickets, please let me know.
Would you also spread the word about our Ethical Ticketing Policy which means senior citizens, refugees and asylum seekers, anyone in receipt of disability benefit or other support, those in full time education, living in social housing, or on any type of government benefit (including tax credits or universal credit) can book FREE tickets. We can also make free tickets available to teachers. The following link includes a full list of exemptions:
https://www.bradfordlitfest.co.uk/plan-your-visit/concessions/
Abigail Housing is Recruiting
Please see the below and the attached regarding a job opportunity with Abigail Housing:
We are looking for a dynamic individual who wants to join our team. This is for a temporary part-time position (3 days a week, Wednesday-Friday), Project Support Worker, at our Bradford Project, to cover Maternity leave. This may lead to a permanent position but this will be dependent on funding. I have attached the Job Pack, which provides all the details about the role. I have also attached the Application form (which is to be completed and returned to me) and the Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form, which is also to be sent to me with the completed application form.
Vacancies: Client Support Manager and Client Support Worker, ASSIST Sheffield
Please see below from ASSIST:
ASSIST Sheffield is growing! We’re very excited to advertise for a new Client Support Worker role and Client Support Manager (job share) within our friendly and expanding Client Support Service team at ASSIST.
The deadline for receipt of applications is Thursday 15th June, 9am. Click on the links above for more information and to download an application pack. Email [email protected] if you would like to discuss the roles further with one of our team. We very much welcome applications from people with lived experience of the asylum system and/or from global majority communities.
Trustee recruitment – BEACON
Please see below and attached from Beacon:
You may already know of BEACON (Bradford Ecumenical Asylum Concern), a small charity that supports people seeking sanctuary in the Bradford District.
Our vision is that Bradford district becomes a hospitable community where people seeking asylum and refugees are welcome, enjoy access to justice & fair treatment and are supported on their journey to independence and integration.
We’re inviting people who share our vision to join our trustee team and help make a difference.
With best wishes
Vicky
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