This briefing, submitted to the Greater London Authority in response to its consultation on the draft Adult Education Roadmap, draws on HBF’s experience of supporting clients access education and work and also the direct views of 17 HBF clients.
This briefing looks at the basic needs provided for by asylum support payments, with reference to the Home Office’s ‘Report on the allowances paid to asylum seekers and failed asylum seekers: 2020’, and most pressing issues that have been identified by the Helen Bamber Foundation (HBF) in relation to our clients.
Survivors of human rights abuses often present with significant mental health difficulties as well as social and integration problems.
The Helen Bamber Foundation has considerable experience of the impact
It is hard to put 2020 into words. We began the year optimistic about our ability to grow and create new support pathways for our clients. Then along with the rest of the world we were forced to modify our plans rapidly and one of the key questions became how we could make sure that our services to Survivors didn’t stop.
The book is part the Royal College Psychiatrists marking of 180 years since the founding of the Association of Medical Officers of Asylums and Hospitals for the Insane in 1841, the earliest predecessor of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and 50 years since the granting of the Royal Charter, which established the College itself in 1971.
Classes and activity groups are an integral part of the
An important part of HBF’s work is our research aimed
In March 2020, I was excited to start as a
Before the pandemic, most of the Helen Bamber Foundation’s work
On 24th March 2021, the government published a "New Plan for Immigration", setting out its proposals for changes to nationality, immigration and asylum law. We are extremely concerned about the whole of the New Plan for Immigration, the approach it takes and the harmful rhetoric used throughout.
