Module 7 Health Resources & Links

Safeguarding

What is safeguarding? CHANGE

Picture based, accessible document to explain safeguarding.

Childrens Legal Centre

Series of factsheets safeguarding and legal issues affecting young refugees and migrants

NSPCC Learning

Provides information on what your organisation can do to protect children from harm and resources to keep the children and families you work or volunteer with safe.

The Situation of Children in Immigrant Families in the United Kingdom

Crawley, H. (2009) Innocenti Working Paper No. 2009-18, Florence: UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre

Working with Children and Young People subject to Immigration Control:

Guidelines for best practice, 2nd edition, March 2012, Heaven Crawley/ILPA

Working Together to Safeguard Children:

A guide to inter-agency working to safeguard and promote the welfare of children

Housing and education

Shelter England

Help if you're homeless

Short and long-term housing options for homeless refugees and asylum seekers.

Asylum seekers' accommodation options

Housing and support rights for asylum seekers awaiting a decision.

Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Housing pathways of new immigrants.

UK Migrants and the Private Rented Sector

Keys to the City

Refugee Council report - How the next Mayor of London can help end refugee homelessness.

Rights and entitlements to housing for new arrivals

Housing Associations Charitable Trust (HACT)

Together for Communities

Experiences from partnerships, transforming neighbourhoods (2011).

Reach In project

Toolkit for recruiting and working with refugee volunteers in housing projects.

Literacy Trust

Understanding bilingualism in the early years. Resources for parents and professionals.

Children’s Legal Centre

Information on access to compulsory education for migrant children.

Bilingualism Matters

Resources on bilingualism, some in different languages.

Private fostering

Private Fostering

Information and advice on private fostering.

Specific protection concerns & barriers to support

Safeguarding African children in the UK series

AFRUCA: What is Child Trafficking? What is Private Fostering? What is Female Genital Mutilation? What is Witchcraft Abuse? What is Physical Abuse? What is Sexual Abuse?

Child Protection: a cultural divide

Children & Young People Now, (2006).

Effectively protecting black and minority ethnic children from harm

Overcoming barriers to the child protection process. Harran E, 2002. Child Abuse Review Vol. 11: 411–414

Exploitation

Forced labour in the UK

Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Research into the nature, scale and scope of forced labour in the UK (2014).

Modern slavery in the United Kingdom

How they stole my childhood

Telegraph interview on child slavery, 2008

Between decent work and forced labour

Examining the continuum of exploitation. Klara Skrivankova, 2010. Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Experiences of forced labour among Chinese migrant workers

Carolyn Kagan et al., 2011. Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Turning the Tide

How best to protect workers employed by gangmasters, five years after Morecambe Bay. Oxfam, 2009.

Protecting children from sexual exploitation

NSPCC Learning

Migrant workers

Child first, migrant second.

Ensuring that every child matters. ILPA, 2006

Migrants Rights

Ueful rights based website, includes sources of legal help and links to organisations that provide practical help to migrants.

European migrant workers and health in the UK. Migrant workers’ experiences and perceptions of local health services and migrant workers’ uptake of and attitudes towards health promotion activities in the UK.

Work, care and life among low-paid migrant workers in London

Towards a migrant ethic of care. Datta K, McIlwaine C, Evans Y, Herbert J, May J & Wills J, 2006 (about balancing working hours and childcare)

Be Tough, Never Let Them See What It Does To You

Towards an understanding of the emotional Lives of economic migrants. Lee-Treweek G. 2010. Journal of Work, Organisations and Emotions, vol.4 no.1, pp.206-226. ssn: 1740-8938

Faith based or spiritual healing

Safeguarding in faith communities

NSPCC Learning.

Safeguarding children from abuse linked to a belief in spirit possession

HM Government

Safeguarding Children’s Rights

Exploring issues of witchcraft and spirit possession in London’s African communities. Trust for London, 2011

FGM

Female genital mutilation: resource pack

Trafficking

Poppy Project: support to trafficking survivors

Safeguarding children who may have been trafficked

Guidance for those working with children.

Stop the Traffick: Resources

Eg: information card: testimonies and signposting

Trafficked Children Toolkit

Staffordshire & Stoke-on-Trent Safeguarding Children Boards. (2015)

ECPAT interactive, practical E-learning training

Look closer to spot exploitation

The Children's Society - Spotting and reporting signs of exploitation

Domestic violence

Survivors Handbook

Available in various languages and formats. Contains specific sections on women from abroad and immigration. Women’s Aid.

Forced marriage

How to protect, advise and support victims of forced marriage

Forced marriage resource toolkit for service providers

Forced Marriage and mental health

Better Health Briefing 24.

Children and young people in the asylum system

(For information on adult asylum seekers, see Module 1)

Supporting refugee and asylum seeking children

YoungMinds - Resources professionals who are supporting asylum seeking and refugee children across England.

Promoting children’s rights

Publications from Children’s Legal Centre.

Services for children and young people

Refugee Council.

Where do child asylum seekers to the UK come from?

Guardian, June 2010

Safe at Last? Children on the Front Line of UK Border Control.

Save the Children.

Asylum seeker kills himself so child can stay in Britain.

The Independent, 2005

I did not choose to come here

Listening to refugee children, Selam Kidane.

The Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture

Provides care and rehabilitation to survivors of torture and other forms of organised violence.

The Baobab Centre for Young Survivors in Exile

Childline

Being a child refugee, applying for asylum, living in the UK.

Risk and resilience for psychological distress amongst unaccompanied asylum seeking adolescents.

Hodes M, 2008. Published in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, vol. 49, issue 7, pp. 723-732

Levelling the playing field

A UNICEF UK report into provision of services to unaccompanied or separated migrant children in three local authority areas in England

Between a rock and a hard place

Negotiating age and identity in the UK asylum system. Crawley H, 2009. pp. 89-106 in N. Thomas (Ed.) Children, Politics and Communication: Participation at the Margins, Bristol: Policy Press