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Working in Partnership to Meet the Needs of Refugees and Asylum Seekers 2022

Online Event 23 August 2022, 9:00am - 3:00pm

Day 1
9:00am
Online Registration
9:30am
Chair’s Welcome Address
Tony Malone, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Consultant
9:40am
Keynote Address: Supporting Refugees To Begin Rebuilding Their Lives, Securing An Income And Integrating Into Communities
  • Helping refugees to secure an income and find a place to live to avoid being evicted from the accommodation in which the government has placed them
  • Providing crisis support and help to secure accommodation and ensuring other basic needs are met
  • Assisting with understanding the UK health services to ensure that refugees can get the care they are entitled to
  • Giving refugees training to improve their English and other vocational skills or build on existing qualifications
Enver Solomon, Chief Executive, Refugee Council
10:00am
Keynote Address from Afghanistan & Central Asian Association
  • Work of Afghanistan and Central Asian Association
  • Needs of Refugees and Asylum Seekers and how to support their integration
  • Funding from UK Government to meet increased demands
Dr Nooralhaq Nasimi, Founder and Director, Afghanistan & Central Asian Association
10:20am
Keynote Address: Examining Asylum And Refugee Resettlement In The UK
  • Analysing the data for the number of people who claimed asylum, positive initial decisions and refugees resettled per year
  • Observing the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on asylum seeking in the UK
  • Examining what share of asylum applications are ultimately successful and the success of the appeals process
  • Tackling the asylum backlog due to an increase in applications and applications taking longer to process
  • Looking at the most common countries of nationality of people seeking asylum in the UK and how it is changing
Dr Peter Walsh, Senior Researcher, The Migration Observatory, University of Oxford
10:40am
Questions And Answers Session
11:00am
Break and Networking
11:35am
Keynote Address: World Scouting’s Approach To Engaging Young People In Humanitarian Action And Refugee Support
  • The role Scouts around the world play during disaster and crisis, and in Humanitarian Settings
  • The power of non-formal education opportunities for young people in Humanitarian Settings
  • Opportunities for partnerships and collaboration across sectors to support Humanitarian Action
Hannah Kentish, Project Manager, Humanitarian Action and Peace Education, and Dimitris Trakaniaris, Humanitarian Action Consultant, World Organization of the Scout Movement
11:55am
Case Study: Supporting Care Leavers With Insecure Immigration Status: Learning On Collaboration And Listening To Young People
  • Learning from evaluation of four charity-led projects to meet the need for care leavers with insecure immigration status
  • The modes of collaboration between the charities and their relevant local authorities and the key resulting successes
  • The projects’ and the evaluators’ approaches to involving young people in making change
  • Opportunities for roll out of best practice beyond the evaluation sites
Keith Clements, Senior Researcher and Frances Lyons, Head of Research and Evidence, National Children's Bureau
12:15pm
Case Study: Working In Partnership To Help Refugee Families Make New Lives In South Gloucestershire
  • Working to support Ukrainian refugees at South Gloucestershire Council
  • Supporting families in by working in partnership between the council and case workers from Julian House, the Care Forum and ACH (Ashley Community Housing)
  • Getting an allocated caseworker to work directly with each family arriving under Government schemes
  • Assessing the needs of families and involving them in shaping the plans for putting the required help in place
  • Helping to navigate the processes to get children into schools, access health and medical services, take language courses and find work
  • Working with women to identify ways to help them build connections with their local communities
Cllr Toby Savage, Council Leader, South Gloucestershire Council
12:35pm
Questions And Answers Session
12:55pm
Lunch And Networking
1:40pm
Case Study: Understanding The Impact Of Unaccompanied Children's Journeys
  • What happens when we don't understand children's journeys
  • What we have seen and heard of the common experiences of children on the move
  • What is the impact of these experiences
  • How does this impact affect the needs of children and how can we best support them upon arrival to the UK
Roseanna Freiburghaus, Refugee Youth Service
2:00pm
Case Study: Improving Health Outcomes For Asylum Seekers And Refugees
  • Relieving the exacerbated fear and anxiety felt by the asylum seeker and refugee community caused by the pandemic
  • Conducting research into the barriers faced by these groups when access help with their mental health
  • Tailoring a programme of community support involving key community partners
  • Extending provision of specialist therapeutic care delivered in a neutral ‘white space’ setting
  • Overcoming barriers such as culturally insensitive provision in certain sectors, a low use of interpreters and lengthy and inaccessible administration procedures
Anne Burghgraef, Clinical Director, Solace
2:20pm
Case Study: Effective Training and Support for Volunteers
  • Navigating cross-cultural issues
  • Communicating with non-native speakers of English
  • Working with staff and volunteers with different areas of expertise
  • Coping with vicarious trauma and secondary traumatic stress
Catharine Hannay, Mindful Teachers
2:40pm
Questions And Answers Session
3:00pm
Chair’s Summary And Close

*programme subject to change

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