Reports from other organisations
We are now including key policy papers from other organisations in our Policy and Research section. These are important strategic papers for the sector, which often the Refugee Council has been involved in developing and the findings of which we support.
- Legal advice Evaluation of the Solihull Pilot for the United Kingdom Border Agency and the Legal Services Commission [Independent Evaluator Jane Aspden, October 2008]
- Independent Asylum Commission: Deserving dignity Deserving Dignity: How to improve the way we treat people seeking sanctuary [Independent Asylum Commission, Chris Hobson, Jonathan Cox and Nicholas Sagovsky, July 2008]
- Independent Asylum Commission: Saving sanctuary Saving Sanctuary: How we restore public support for sanctuary and improve the way we decide who needs sanctuary [Independent Asylum Commission,Chris Hobson, Jonathan Cox and Nicholas Sagovsky, May 2008]
- Independent Asylum Commission: Fit for purpose yet? Fit for Purpose Yet?: The Independent Asylum Commission’s Interim Findings [Chris Hobson, Jonathan Cox and Nicholas Sagovsky, March 2008]
- Voluntary returns Recommendations for the Return and Reintegration of Rejected Asylum Seekers: Lessons learned from Returns to Kosovo [Danish Refugee Council, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 2008]
- Children and families Like any other child? Children and families in the asylum process [John Reacroft, Barnardos, January 2008]
- Unaccompanied children Claiming Asylum at a Screening Unit as an Unaccompanied Child [11 Million, March 2008]
- Protection at airports Access to Protection at Airports in Europe: Report on the monitoring experience at airports in Amsterdam, Budapest, Madrid, Prague, Vienna and Warsaw [Hungarian Helsinki Committee, January 2008]
- Voluntary returns Return in Dignity, Return to What? Review of the Voluntary Return Programme to Afghanistan [Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway, 2008]
- Women's rights The Rights of Women Seeking Asylum: a Charter [Refugee Women's Resource Project, July 2008]
- Destitution More Destitution in Leeds: Repeat survey of destitute asylum seekers and refugees approaching local agencies for support [Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, July 2008]
- Mentoring Mentoring and Befriending: A case study approach to illustrate its relevance to cohesion and cross cultural issues [Mentoring and Befriending Foundation Strategic Development Group, April 2008]
- Status & category matter Refugee types, entitlements and integration support [Dave Brown for Yorkshire & Humber Regional Migration Partnership, January 2008]
- Community cohesion The Government’s Response to the Commission on Integration and Cohesion [UK Government, February 2008]
- Protection in Europe Defending Refugees’ Access to Protection in Europe [ECRE, December 2007]
- Employment and skills Opportunity, Employment and Progress: Making Skills Work [Department for Work and Pensions, November 2007]
- Integration and citizenship From Refugee to Citizen: ‘Standing on my own two feet,’ a research report on integration, ‘Britishness’ and citizenship. [ippr on behalf of Refugee Support, October 2007]
- UNHCR in Iraq UNHCR Governorate Assessment Reports [UNHCR, September 2007]
- Conditions in Iraq Iraq: The socio-economic situation in the KRG administrated provinces Sulaimaniyah, Erbil and Dohuk [Schweizerische Fluchtlingshilfe, July 2007]
- Rights in Afghanistan Economic and Social Rights in Afghanistan II [Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, August 2007]
- Community cohesion Our Shared Future [The Commission on Integration and Cohesion, June 2007]
- Iraqi displacement Iraq's Displacement Crisis: the Search for Solutions [Forced Migration Review, June 2007]
- Age disputes When is a child not a child? Asylum, age disputes and the process of age assessment [ILPA / Heaven Crawley,
May 2007]
- Social cohesion in diverse communities An exploration of the relationships between new and established communities in ethnically diverse neighbourhoods [Joseph Rowntree Foundation, May 2007]