What we do and how we are funded
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What we do
Migration Yorkshire delivers a wide range of work, including acting as the Strategic Migration Partnership for the Yorkshire and Humber region.
There are 12 Strategic Migration Partnerships (SMPs) covering the regions and nations of the UK.
The role of an SMP includes:
- Strategic leadership, consultation and coordination, ensuring a cohesive and place-based approach to migration and the sharing of relevant information and good practice.
- Single point of contact for government departments and playing a key role nationally and regionally in the development and delivery of new migration policies and programmes, highlighting risks to delivery, impacts on people within immigration processes, and regional impacts.
- Project management of key migration programmes.
- Lead the coordination of the protection-based immigration workstream in each region/devolved nation.
Migration Yorkshire additionally delivers work beyond the standard SMP function within Yorkshire and Humber, and across the UK.
Our main areas of work are:
- Asylum
- Unaccompanied asylum-seeking children
- Refugee Resettlement
- Hong Kong BN(O) Visa Scheme
- Ukraine
- Integration and cohesion
- Migrant participation and Lived Experience
- Policy, research, and statistics
- Strategic and enabling role
- Migration Support
Our funding
Migration Yorkshire has multiple funders:
- Membership fees and contributions from local authorities in our region
- Grants from Government Departments under different migration workstreams for the Strategic Migration Partnership (SMP) role
- Contracts for specific work, recent examples include the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and Wakefield Council
- Services paid for by a range of organisations through Migration Support
- Other grant funders