Migration data for the Humber

What’s available and what does it tell us?

Available data

‘Easily’ accessible

• Population trends and migration estimates

• Migrant workers

• International students at universities

• Pupil first language

• National migration trends

Negotiable

• Local authority level data on A8 workers

• Asylum seekers and some refugees

• Locally collected data by individual services

Sources of information and support

Introduction to Migration Statistics gives links to:

(Inter)national and local datasetsLocal Government Association guideCommentary on national migration statistics and the net migration target (IPPR)Local Information Systems in the region www.migrationyorkshire.org.uk/statistics

New JSNA Guide to Migrant Health

Local Migration Profile project

Driven by partner agencies struggling to find and use migration data to prepare for migrants in their client groups

Flexible design

Regular outputs combining available data for each local authority area and subregions

Send me everything

How many immigrants are

there?

What’s unique?

Non-specialist audience

Compares different sources

Change over time and space

Compares locality to the regional ‘average’

Regular updates to include new data

Mainstream service applications

General migration background for mainstream services (internal briefings, media)

Population profiling requirements: JSNA (health), LEA and EIA (LAs)

Targeting specific groups: burglary prevention (housing services), engaging with minority communities (police and fire services)

Research support: local studies (arts and leisure), choosing research sample sites

Migrant service applications

Specific data for migrant services

Needs assessments for new services (Red Cross destitution work, Barnardo’s scoping needs of asylum children)

Evidence in grant applications (Police)

Planning for existing services (languages for translation materials, UKBA LITs)

Improving services (asylum dispersal sites, improving LA support for vulnerable groups following inspection)

Current migration trends in the Humber

Small decrease in net international migrationchurn everywhere, increases in Hull / NE Lincs, decreases in East Riding and North Lincs, internal moves

Fewer asylum seekers and refugees - in Hull

Expanding migrant families especially in Hull and North Lincs

Accession migration beginning to stabiliseincreases in Latvian and Lithuanian arrivals

Impact on rural areasdependency on agricultural workers in East Riding?

Gaps in the data

Particular migrant groups:Those joining families already hereFurther education and ESOL learnersPeople with no recourse to public fundsPeople leaving the UK (and by what route)

Alternative migration indicators:Local servicesRegistered employers and education providersLocal research

What’s coming up in 2011?

Less data? Fewer services producing data, localism drive reducing targets and local government reporting requirements

Ending of transitional arrangements for A8 countries will end WRS data

Net migration target reducing entry to UK across formal routes (work, study, asylum) – possible entry through other routes?

New inclusion of pupil data in our profiles

Our role as data users

Balancing risk…

limited access to sensitive data

political sensitivity and gatekeeping

how much data should we collect?

…and benefit:

a more informed ‘debate’ on migration

improved data expertise among migrant services

bridging the gap between policy, practice, data and research - better services for whole communities