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Title: Good practice in social care with refugees and asylum seekers


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Good practice in social carewith refugees and
asylum seekers
  • Nicole Crompton
  • -University of Central Lancashire (uclan)
  • Zemikael Habte-Mariam
  • - European Refuge Advocacy Organisation
  • - Equalities National Council

2
Entitlements - Assesment
  • Section 116 of the Immigration and Asylum Act
    1999
  • An asylum seeker or refugee has an equal right
    to request a care assessment at any stage. (NASS
    2004)

3
Following assessment
  • Asylum seekers
  • Eligible to have their assessed needs met if
    those needs have not arisen solely out of
    destitution or because of the physical effects of
    destitutionduty falls to the Local Authority to
    meet that need
  • Refugees
  • same entitlements as any other UK citizen

4
Barriers to access
  • Knowledge/ understanding of entitlements
  • Language
  • Jurisdiction disputes
  • Availability of social care

5
Good practice
  • Culturally Sensitive Services
  • Adjustments to mainstream services
  • Dedicated services
  • Cultural Competence
  • attributes and beliefs of practitioner
  • knowledge and skills of practitioner
  • Social Worker Training
  • uphold anti-discriminatory/oppressive practice
  • challenge discriminatory practice

6
Good Practice
  • Multi Agency Partnership
  • Better service ownership of issues and solutions
  • information more freely shared between agencies,
    and clearer knowledge of the provision of each is
    possible
  • Reducing confusion over responsibilities
  • More appropriate referral
  • Sharing good practice between organisations

7
Good Practice
  • Community Involvement
  • Voluntary Sector Partners
  • freedom from procedural and legal constraints
  • respond flexibly to the diverse and changing
    needs of asylum seekers and refugees
  • step in when the local authority is no longer
    able to assist as in the case of refused asylum
    seekers
  • Advocacy, translation, mediation, social
    cultural networks,

8
Other sectors
  • Health
  • Mental Health
  • Housing

9
Activity
  • Activity 1 From the perspective of the voluntary
    sector
  • Activity 2 From the perspective of the statutory
    sector
  • Activity 3From the perspective of the asylum
    seeker or refugee
  • Use examples from your own experience

10
Community Engagement
Facilitated
Supported
Resourced
Trained
Communities and agencies working together
Generating ownership
Raising awareness
equitable services improved access, experience
and outcome
Reducing stigma, denial fear
Sustaining engagement
Assessing need
Developing workforce
Increasing trust
Articulating need
Building capacity
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