Migration Impacts Fund
Monday, 07 December 2009 16:05
Northern Refugee Centre is being funded by the Migration Impacts Fund to do work with advice agencies in Yorkshire and the Humber, to improve their specialist service to new European Union migrants, princicpally from the accession states.
Advice - for agencies
If you are from an advice agency, and would like second-tier advice, please see below for contact deatils.
Please click here for details of our event on Friday 5 March 2010.
Advice - general
Alternatively, please see information on our EU migrants advice page.
Description of the project
The EU Migrant Advice project provides:
- specialist advice posts in North Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and the Humber
- a central post in Sheffield
These posts will give 'second tier' support to any advice agency with enquiries from EU migrants. This will involve telephone support and some referrals of complex casework.
The project will also:
- supervise other MIF funded advisers in Doncaster and Rotherham
- hold regional advisers' meetings to coordinate work, and to share information and good practice
- provide training to advisers, so they can better deal with enquiries
- support pilot initiatives to bring EU migrants into community advice organisations to help provide the advice, advocacy and interpreting for their own communities as well as enquiries on all subjects from local communties
- try to improve advice for those EU migrants who lose work or face family break up, on their options to return or to access support and work
Contact details for advice agencies seeking second-tier advice:
- For enquiries in the West Yorkshire region:
Dariusz Kowalowski, (based at Bradford Action for Refugees) 01274 223321, mob: 07900056192, email Dariusz.kowalowski AT nrcentre.org.uk - North Yorkshire: Fran Bremner (based at Ryedale CAB), telephone 01653 692 867 (Weds & Thurs); immigration.ryedalecab AT cabnet.org.uk
- Humberside region: Dominika Futyma (based at Hull CAB); telephone 01482 587670 dominika.futyma AT hullcab.org
