Campaigns and Advocacy | making our voices heard
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We want to raise awareness of the issues faced by displaced young people and how people can help. As part of the Together with Refugees coalition, we have been urging this Government for a compassionate approach to displacement and asylum whilst highlighting the widespread support in Surrey for this approach.
Our priority is engaging as many people as we can in our work, reaching new audiences and sharing what we do and why. We've done this through various broadcast media pieces on BBC Radio Surrey and Radio 4, and spoken at multiple conferences. We believe it’s essential that our beneficiaries also have the opportunity to speak out if they want to. We have worked closely with BBC Radio Surrey to facilitate several interviews with the young people we support.
Our current focus is stopping the abhorrent plan to offshore asylum claims to Rwanda, and communicate the truly disastrous impact this will, and is already having, upon displaced communities. As an organisation engaging with displaced young people, we are particularly concerned that incorrect age assessments will lead to children being sent alone to Rwanda, and are working with our partners across the sector to prevent this.
Our priority is engaging as many people as we can in our work, reaching new audiences and sharing what we do and why. We've done this through various broadcast media pieces on BBC Radio Surrey and Radio 4, and spoken at multiple conferences. We believe it’s essential that our beneficiaries also have the opportunity to speak out if they want to. We have worked closely with BBC Radio Surrey to facilitate several interviews with the young people we support.
Our current focus is stopping the abhorrent plan to offshore asylum claims to Rwanda, and communicate the truly disastrous impact this will, and is already having, upon displaced communities. As an organisation engaging with displaced young people, we are particularly concerned that incorrect age assessments will lead to children being sent alone to Rwanda, and are working with our partners across the sector to prevent this.
ways to get involved
Rwanda Plan |
We're following the lead of the wonderful people at Care4Calais who are spearheading the campaign against the Rwanda plan.
Care4Calais are challenging this Government's proposals to forcibly remove people seeking sanctuary in the UK to Rwanda. They're bringing this claim alongside the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) and Detention Action. You can read more and support their court battle here. |
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