Planning services at The Children's Society LEAP Programme, Leeds

Prepared by The Children’s Society LEAP Programme,for Yorkshire & Humber Regional Migration Partnership, 1st April 2011

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Planning Services at The Children’s Society LEAP Programme

• We need to quantify the need for services through providing statistics.

• Whilst anecdotal evidence of asylum seekers and refugees needs is important – funders want quantitative data analysis and predicted outputs

Barriers to identify statistics

• Where can I gather these stats from?

• Who is there locally that can support this?

• How can I identify current stats?

• How can I identify local figures?

• How can I pinpoint specific groups?

• How can I develop stats to meet my services needs?

How does LEAP Programme use statistics?

• Strategic reviews

• Strategic meetings profiling need

• Monitoring and evaluation

• Service development and planning

• Identifying emerging trends

• Annual reports

• Lobbying/Advocacy/Campaigns

• Funding applications

In Practice

• Build relationships with key local professionals in the sector: LEAP gain statistics from Social Services CART, UKBA, Education Leeds, Leeds City College, PAFRAS, YHRMP referring services and in the past Leeds City Council Asylum Team.

• Particular information LEAP’S have sought: age profiling of asylum seekers, family structure, postcodes of housing, what type of asylum support, country of origin, education provider, UASCs.

In Practice

• The biggest gap is identifying refugee figures in Leeds.

• Combine various sources of stats to present an overall local picture.

• Provide the ‘big picture’ stats through national figures.

• Keep monitoring and profiling your service users and identify any emerging trends respond accordingly.

Due to the confidential nature of the data, slides 8-11 have been removed for web viewing.

Resources

• www.migrationyorkshire.org.uk/policybriefings

• http://rds.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/immigration-asylum-stats.html

• http://www.icar.org.uk/

Any questions?

For further information please get in touch:

The Children’s Society LEAP ProgrammeLower Ground FloorCubic Business Centre533 Stanningley RoadLeedsLS13 4EN

Tel: 0113 236 3900Fax: 0113 236 3940