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Conference: Supporting young asylum-seekers in a hostile environment: How rights have changed after the 2014 & 2016 Immigration Acts – 24 November 2016 (Canterbury)
This free, one-day conference, jointly sponsored by Kent Law Clinic and MiCLU and hosted by the University of Kent, will explore challenges facing practitioners in providing care, support and legal representation to young asylum seekers following the 2014 and 2016 Immigration Acts. The conference aims to bring together social workers
We stand against schools collecting immigration data on children
Immigration information on individual pupils must now be provided to the government by schools, colleges, nurseries and childminders as part of the Early Years and Schools Census.The Department of Education (DfE)’s policy, effective from September 2016, requires country of birth and nationality data to be collected and then permanently stored
Listening to the unheard
There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard. - Arundhati Roy, 2004 On 1 June 2016 academics, lawyers, social workers, health practitioners, NGO workers, policy officials, activists, and a host of others gathered to hear about and discuss
