2012/13 Business Plan: Work Plan

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Actions

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  1. RESEARCH:
IRREGULAR MIGRATION, ILLEGAL WORKING & HUMAN TRAFFICKING /
  • Undertake a base line mapping exercise from existing sources including the LIT teams & research
  • Conduct a gap analysis for the SE
  • Liaise with potential partners such as universities to explore research options
  • Undertake analysis and awareness raising exercise
  • Present to SESPM Executive
  • Dissemination plan to reach key partners
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  • Partnership Manager
/ Dec. 2012 /
  • LIT leads
  • Administrative Support
  • Local Area Strategic Migration Groups
  • Agreed Partnership
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  • Key recommendations identified as a resource for partners in detecting irregular migration, illegal working & human trafficking
  • Production of a resource for partners to increase understanding & inform service planning to reduce abuse.
  • Launch & dissemination of recommendations.

2. PROJECT:
INCREASE & EMBED AWARENESS RAISING OF ASSISTED VOLUNTARY RETURN /
  • Agree a programme of AVR workshops/road shows with UKBA & the 19 upper tier authorities of the SE
  • Scope inclusion of Voluntary sector agencies
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  • Oxfordshire workshop on May 9th.
  • Kent planned for the end of May (TBC)
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  • Partnership Manager
/ March 2013 /
  • UKBA (Steve Hall) & LIT leads
  • Refugee Action
  • Administrative Support
  • Local Authority Partners
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  • Social Workers have increased knowledge of the AVR programmes & referral routes
  • Increase in AVR enquiries
  • Ongoing awareness raising programme agreed with key partners.

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3. PROJECT:
SE NETWORKS FOR:
NO RECOURSE TO PUBLIC FUNDS
UASC/CARE LEAVERS /
  • Coordinate/facilitate 6 monthly SE NRPF meetings
  • Coordinate & facilitate 6 weekly UASC/Care Leavers telephone meetings
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  • October meeting
  • Ongoing schedule
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  • Partnership Manager
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  • Oct/March
  • Ongoing
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  • Social Service Leads
  • Voluntary Sector
  • LA legal teams
  • LIT Leads
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  • The impact & costs are monitored & understood
  • Best practice is identified & shared
  • Local strategies & initiatives are informed.
  • Provision of practical support for partners

  1. RESEARCH:
MIGRATION: STRATEGIC IMPACT ASSESSMENT ON POLICING /
  • Agree a project & data collection plan
  • Research undertaken including mid year workshop
  • Analysis undertaken & assessment produced
  • Present findings at executive
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  • Data project/collection plan agreed with analyst
  • SPOCs identified across a range of authorities & partners
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  • Partnership Manager
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  • Dec 2012
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  • Local Strategic Migration Group Partners
  • SPOCs
  • “Strategic Intelligence”
  • ACPO
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  • Increased understanding of any relationship between migration & the impact on policing
  • Key findings produced & disseminated to partners as a resource to inform service planning & provision including UKBA/police embedded officers

  1. RESEARCH:
GROWTH AGENDA: RELIANCE ON MIGRANT LABOUR /
  • Update 2011 research
  • Seek to expand research linking with other regions
  • Establish ongoing data template for from public sources
  • Disseminate appropriately
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  • Link made with East of England
  • Presentations at the NMG (April) & Association of SE Colleges (May)
  • Update agreed with Worcester Research
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  • Partnership Manager
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  • Dec 2012
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  • Worcester Research
  • UKBA (PBS Data)
  • SEEC
  • ONS
  • LEPS
  • AOSEC
  • HE establishments
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  • Resource produced to inform skills strategies for LEPS & education providers, UKBA/MAC consultations.

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Actions

/ Progress Updates / By Whom / By When / Partners / Expected Outcome
  1. PROJECT:
DATA COLLECTION:
DATA DASHBOARD /
  • Data collection template produced covering all aspects of migration
  • Dashboard produced & updated twice yearly with accompanying narrative.
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  • Links made with independent research into asylum & refugee data for Oxfordshire
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  • Partnership Manager
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  • Sept 2012
  • March 2013
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  • Administrative Support
  • External data support
  • ONS
  • Local Partners
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  • Production of a single source of data for migration in the SE covering NINO, flag 4 , EU/non EU, schools census, asylum

  1. PROJECT:
SE MIGRANT HEALTH NETWORK /
  • Develop the SE Migrant Health Network as a sustainable resource for health professionals
  • Establish links with the Clinical Commissioning Groups & Public Health
  • Establish strategic meeting to agree content & links as a resource for new health structures
  • Agree sustainable funding strategy through a steering group
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  • Links made with Kent Public Health
  • Centre for Public Innovation are preparing a strategy paper.
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  • Partnership Manager
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  • Sept 2012 web site re-launched. Sustainability approach agreed.
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  • Local Strategic Migration groups
  • Centre for Public Innovation
  • Public Health
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  • An online resource to for health professionals including CCGs to inform planning & commissioning services in the SE.
  • A repository for up to date research into migrant health issues
  • An online forum for health professionals

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Actions

/ Progress Updates / By Whom / By When / Partners / Expected Outcome
  1. PROJECT:
APPEAL RIGHTS EXHAUSTED CARE LEAVERS /
  • Coordinate a cross sector steering group to project plan the pilot
  • Establish users forum/input
  • Submit funding applications
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  • Steering group established
  • Reaching Communities application identified
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  • Partnership Manager
/ Sept 2012 /
  • Centre for Public Innovation
  • Social Services (Kent/Oxfordshire)
  • Police
  • Refugee Action
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  • Increase in AVR among ARE Care Leavers
  • Decrease in vulnerability to exploitation/radicalisation & exposure to criminality as vendor or victim
  • Increase in contact management
  • Improvement in wellbeing
  • Improved community relationships

  1. PROJECT:
KENT EMPLOYMENT PROGRAME TO SUPPORT PARTNSHIP ACTIVITY /
  • Employ a graduate through the KCC Employment programme
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  • KCC have reserved the funding for SESPM
  • Applied through DoverDC to host & secondment to SESPM
  • Job description & person specification written
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  • Partnership Manager
/ May 2012 /
  • KCC
  • DoverDC
  • SEEC
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  • Increased capacity to deliver in all areas of the partnerships work specifically :
  • Response to consultations
  • Resource for research
  • Resource for projects
  • Improve communications & reach of partnership (see point 10, 11, 12 below)

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  1. RESEARCH/PROJECT:
INTEGRATION /
  • Research & collate research on integration
  • Develop a data capture template
  • Establish dissemination programme including workshops/seminars/events/web site/meetings
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  • April executive themed on Integration with cutting edge research presented from Oxford university, Reading university & the Housing & Migration Network
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  • Partnership Manager
  • Graduate policy officer
/ Ongoing /
  • UKBA
  • Reading/Oxford Universities
  • Local Strategic Migration Groups
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  • Resource provided for cross sector local leadership to draw on providing support and information for service planning.

  1. PROJECT:
PROVIDE SE COLLECTIVE RESPONSE AND SINGLE POINT OF CONTACT /
  • Communicate, coordinate, collate, aggregate and submit responses to UKBA, MAC & other consultations
  • Prepare background papers & consultation templates to enable partners to respond in an effective & time efficient way
  • Identify and present issues of regional significance and present through the executive, NMG, LGA or other strategic body as appropriate.
  • Undertake research & coordinate task & finish groups to produce recommendations
  • Act as a single point of contact for central communications; reaching appropriate partners & providing effective follow up
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  • Each local strategic migration group will identify one key issue for the partnership to research
  • Key issues of migration in the SE is prepared for the quarterly NMG meetings
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  • Partnership Manager
  • Graduate policy officer
/ Ongoing /
  • Local Strategic Migration Groups
  • UKBA
  • NMG
  • MAC
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  • The SE responds comprehensively to consultations & information requests
  • Proactive approach to addressing concerns and innovative solutions proposed to enable partners to deliver services,
  • Central communications are disseminated appropriately and where appropriate guidance and follow up actions undertaken to ensure understanding and effective communication,

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  1. RESEARCH/PROJECT:
IMPACT ANALYSIS ON THE REDUCTION OF FUNDING ON SERVICE PROVISION /
  • Undertake a baseline mapping exercise of authorities & partners to understand the impact of funding reductions
  • Produce an options paper recommendations for local authorities to enable effective service delivery within reduced budgets through considering cross border services.
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  • Partnership Manager
  • Graduate policy officer
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  • December 2012
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  • Local Strategic Migration Groups
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  • A resource for local authorities to refer to in providing services with reduced resources,

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