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Weekly Home Office Update, 17th June 2021

By on 25th June 2021 in Resource

SMP/HO weekly COVID call 17.06.2021

  • Cessations – in light of changes to govt. roadmap Home Office will review latest PHE guidance and put a case to ministers on a possible resumption date. No current action has been taken, cessations remain paused.
  • ASPEN – Majority of population now have new card but there are still a minority with activation issues.
  • Accommodation and intake – There has been a significant rise in weekly arrivals but the year to date figures remain normal.
  • Operation Oak – A number of hotels are closing in the coming weeks, notably Mercure hotels in Y&H. Home Office are looking at capacity and whether there is a need to stand up new hotels to replace these. Home Office unable to give exact end date for Op Oak. Challenges to meet Op Oak targets are down to procurement not intake.

VCS Engagement sessions – full programme and registration details

Don’t forget to register for the VCS Engagement sessions! The full programme and registration details are on our website, and there are still places available – VCS engagement workshops : Migration Yorkshire

Message from Mears – Covid-19 updated details for VCS who conduct onsite in reach

Please see below from Mears:

Good afternoon,

 I trust you are all well.  We have recently updated our Covid-19 contact detail platform and I would like to share these details with you to allow for you to update your IA contingency in reach Risk Assessment – if you do not already have the details.

 We ask, should you or any volunteer develop COVID -19 symptoms after visiting a hotel they must inform Mears out of hours by emailing [email protected]. We also ask that a register of all service users who attended any VCS class/workshops should be passed onto the resident welfare manager for our records, kindly drop a call or email to your Partnership Manger as a backup. This allows us to understand where a possible close contact has occurred and helps us manage on site response.  

 If this occurs in reverse and we are informed of risk in relation to Covid-19, we will of course contact you and ask for in reach and contact to be limited.

 We are confident you have these details and are aware, this is a gentle reminder of them and to reiterate our continued commitment to keep everyone safe during this continued testing times. 

 Thank you as ever for all of your support – any questions, please do not hesitate to call.

Contacts in the North East

If you are working with any individuals or families who are being relocated to the North East, Migration Yorkshire can help with linking them up with relevant support organisations in their new area. Please do drop me an email if there is anything we can to do support. The North East Migration Partnership have also provided the information below for me to share with you all:

North East Migration Partnership | Working to ensure the North East of England can deal with, and benefit from, migration (nemp.org.uk)

NEMP Service Directory

There is Service directory has a Find Services Tab  for ESOL classes ,drop in sessions as well as E-resources below.

Free E – Learning Courses

There is a translation tool available on our site to make the courses accessible to people in other languages.

Leaflets

The leaflets available on our website have been translated into the top 10 languages of new arrivals – Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Chinese, Farsi, Kurdish Sorani, Pashto, Punjabi, Tigrinya and Urdu.

Education in the UK https://www.nemp.org.uk/education-in-the-uk-leaflets/

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