refugees

New Report: “Building the capacity of housing providers and refugee communities”

HACT today published a new report that myself and Jenny Phillimore produced for them.

The report is an evaluation of the first three waves of HACT’s ‘Reach In’ programme, which facilitated 80 volunteer placements for refugees within housing providers to improve refugee employment prospects, address the skills gap within housing and enable housing providers to deliver better services to refugees.

The evaluation assessed the effectiveness of the project in helping refugees to become more employable, develop relationships between housing providers and refugee organisations and to help housing providers better meet the needs of their refugee communities.

You can find out more about both HACT and the ‘Reach In’ programme by clicking here.

You can read and download the report here.

Immigration for a Nation of Immigrants: Speak Out magazine

(The following short post is an introductory piece that was included in the third edition of Speak Out magazine. I include it to ensure that as much of my published work is available to read from this website as possible)

With 2,000 years of immigration under its belt – albeit sometimes in the form of invasion and conquest – it is somewhat surprising that immigration remains a contentious issue for the British.

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