Please see email update from Susan below, on behalf of the No Recourse North East Partnership:
“Please find below an NRPF Update for you and some news about our NRPF Project!
We are pleased to announce that we have been successful in both bids for funding – so in the coming months we should have 1.5 people in post – a full time person for 3 years (funded by the Paul Hamlyn foundation) and a further year of FAF funding for someone for 18 hours a week.
Personally I shall be reducing my hours to five a week from June and I shall train up and mentor both new people in NRPF matters, and continue with some NRPF training too.
Citizen’s Right Project EUSS Clinics
The next EUSS Clinic will be Wednesday 28th May 5.30-7.30pm at the Turning Point Scotland office, 45-49 Holburn Street. Support is by appointment only, so please contact eussreferralsaberdeen@outlook.com to book an appointment if required. Details of future clinics can be found in the post attached.
The Ukrainian Permission Extension (UPE) scheme
This scheme has been open since 18th February 2024.
Section 3C Leave and Employer Responsibilities: A Guide – A link is here
This document has been created by the Refugee and Migrant Forum of Essex and London (RAMFEL)
New Reports
NACCOM (No Accommodation Network) Report on negative asylum decisions (18th March 2025)
Refugee homelessness increased at an alarming rate in 2023-2024. According to official government statistics, homelessness among people leaving asylum accommodation rose by 251%. Not only is this hugely traumatic for new refugees, but frontline services are feeling the impact too, with NACCOM members accommodating nearly double the number of refugees in 2023-24 than in the previous year.
NACCOM’s Impact Report 2023-2024 Ending destitution for people in the asylum and immigration system may also be of interest.
https://naccom.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/NACCOM-ImpactReport_2023-2024-FINAL.pdf
Praxis and the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) reveal the harmful impacts of being excluded from childcare support on migrant families in the new report – Every Child is Equal, Bridging the Childcare Gap for families with No Recourse to Public Funds (NPRF).
Whitaker-Yilmaz J and Mort L (February 2025)
www.ippr.org/publications/every-child-is-equal
Rainbow Migration are calling for full repeal of the Illegal Migration Act, (but if not then at least repeal of Section 59) regarding the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill which is currently on its way through Parliament.
Essentially section 59 places countries such as Albania, Georgia and India on a ‘safe country list’, from whose nationals’ asylum claims can only be admitted in ‘exceptional circumstances’ risks, giving rise to breaches of the Refugee Convention.
In countries like India, Georgia and Albania, there’s widespread evidence that LGBTQI+ people face real danger.
House of Commons Library reports
1. Devolution (Immigration) (Scotland) Bill 2024-25 (17th April 2025)
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-10247
Stephen Gethins, MP for Arbroath and Broughty Ferry, has proposed a bill to devolve immigration powers to Scotland. The second reading is scheduled for 25 April 2025.
This is an important bill but sadly we don’t think it has much chance of success but we are hopeful it will raise the issues at a higher level of debate.
- Unauthorised migration: UK returns agreements with other countries (5th Dec 2024)
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-10157
Asylum
The Boaz trust (based in Manchester) has uploaded some really useful guides in February and March this year which can be found here:
https://www.boaztrust.org.uk/pages/108-resources?
These are:
1) Negative decision guidance and signposting – Advice on what to do after a negative decision on an asylum claim from GMCA’s Refugee Welcome Programme.
2) Housing Guide – A guide to help you find a place to live after you’ve been granted refugee status.
Training
Following the Midwives Team report that there has been an increase in cases of pregnant women presenting with female genital mutilation (FGM) at ARI, our NRPF and gender based abuse sub-group has been advised of the following training:
There is a MOOC on Future Learn, created by Aberdeen University, which can be found here:
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM): Health, Law, and Socio-Cultural Sensitivity – understand the many impacts of FGM and the legal duty of a health and social care professional in reporting FGM practices:
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/womens-and-girls-health
(NB. Free access to this course expires on the 19th May. The course can be purchased for £79)
Please note the next full partnership meeting will be on Tuesday June 10th 2025 at 2pm
(this was changed from the original suggested date of 3rd June)
Best Regards,
Susan B” Sent on behalf of the No Recourse North East Partnership
