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Call for Expressions of Interest: Training and supervision for Immigration Advice Authority (IAA) caseworkers in delivering complex asylum, human rights and trafficking casework (Cohort 5)
Since 2023, Asylum Aid has partnered with the Justice Together Initiative to provide free in-depth training for IAA Level 2 advisers who want to deliver casework at IAA Level 2 and 3, particularly in complex asylum, human rights and trafficking cases. We will also assist trainees, managers and organisations to develop processes and procedures to support complex casework in line with the requirements of IAA and the Legal Aid contract.
When the law changes sides: the criminalisation of survivors of trafficking in the UK
Kamena Dorling, Rhona French, Molly Nicolson
Survivors of human trafficking are victims of serious crime and grave human rights abuses. Yet in the United Kingdom many survivors - particularly non-British nationals - are instead treated as offenders. Rather than receiving protection, they are frequently arrested, prosecuted, imprisoned, detained under immigration powers and excluded from support because of offences that are directly linked to their trafficking and exploitation. Helen Bamber Foundation and Asylum Aid’s new report, ‘When the law changes sides’, sets out how this happens, why it keeps happening, and what needs to change.
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Upper Tribunal finds Home Office’s secret practice unlawful; government then proposes to remove protection for vast majority of trafficking survivors
Asylum Aid has welcomed a landmark Upper Tribunal judgment finding that the Home Office acted unlawfully by operating a secret practice for around nine years of granting recognised victims of trafficking only 12 months' Temporary Permission to Stay (Victim of Trafficking) ("VTS leave") in recovery cases where applicants could not provide evidence showing how long their medical treatment would last. The case, brought by Asylum Aid, forced the Home Office to disclose for the first time that the practice existed and had been in operation for such a long time, was communicated only through verbal instructions and was never set out in written guidance.
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