Migrants Rights courses
All Migrants Rights courses are 2.5 hours long and cost £175 per person (£100 for members of Positive Action in Housing) for open courses. They can also be delivered in-house.
No Recourse To Public Funds
Who’s it for?
Housing, 3rd Sector and Local Authority frontline staff, managers and board members
What is it about?
As the economy suffers the lasting effects of the cost-of-living crisis, people with complicated immigration statuses will be more vulnerable than ever. Our No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) workshop will help frontline workers identify a tenant’s current status, clarify what this means in terms of access to public funds and plan effective support where difficulties arise.
Learning Outcomes
• Understand why there is a list of Public Funds and why is it important to know about it.
• Know what is on the list of Public Funds.
• Know how to identify who has a No Recourse to Public Funds restriction
• Be able to make a plan to improve circumstances for people when they have NRPF.
Rights and Entitlements of EEA Nationals
Who’s it for?
Housing, 3rd Sector and Local Authority frontline staff, managers and board members
What is it about?
Outside of the European Union, many EEA nationals living in the UK find their rights more complex than ever and the cost-of-living crisis taking a tighter and tighter grip. You will be briefed on fundamental issues of housing, homelessness and welfare entitlements of EEA nationals and we will look at how your service users might prepare themselves for an economy in recession and cost of living spiralling.
Learning Outcomes
• Understand the basic legislative and policy background to the rights of EU nationals.
• Have a basic overview of the EU Settlement Scheme and know how to identify types of status.
• Have a basic overview of Right to Reside and Habitual Residence issues and how this affects access to common public funds.
• Have a basic understanding of who is a Qualified Person and who may be their Family Members.
Rights of Refugees and Asylum Seekers
Who’s it for?
Housing, 3rd Sector and Local Authority frontline staff, managers and board members
What is it about?
Successive legislation has pushed people seeking asylum in the UK further and further from the mainstream, making life for people waiting for decisions of asylum applications and people with status increasingly difficult. This course explores how the asylum system works from the perspective of a claimant and the process involved in making a claim for asylum. The course also explores the journeys and barriers faced by both refugees and asylum seekers reaching and building a new life in Scotland and their respective entitlement to services.
Learning Outcomes
• Have an overview of the basic legislative and policy background to the rights of people seeking asylum and refugees.
• Understand more about why people come to the UK to seek asylum and what their journeys involve.
• Understand more about how the legal process of seeking asylum works in practice.
• Understand more about people’s rights to housing and support during and after their asylum application process.
• Understand why and when destitution happens.
• Be more aware of how people may find a route out of destitution.