About us

Yorkshire and Humber Regional Migration Partnership works with national government, local government, and others to ensure that Yorkshire and Humber can deal with, and benefit from, migration. We work with agencies across the statutory, voluntary, community and private sectors to help support the delivery of high quality services to migrants in a way that benefits everyone living in local communities.

What do we do?

The Partnership has four key roles:

Strategic leadership and coordination for the wider region around migration issues [also known as ‘the enabling role']. We convene and support the Strategic Migration Group, our main policy and advisory group - the place where local authorities, statutory agencies and the voluntary sector get together to discuss how migration impacts on our region and to agree ways forward.

Management of the public sector asylum accommodation contract  We coordinate the delivery of the agreement between ten local authorities in this region [the ‘Public Sector Group’] and the Government for meeting the accommodation needs of asylum seekers.

Effective integration of refugees and other migrants  We support local authorities and others in their work to promote effective integration of refugees at a local level, and provide a strategic link to government on this issue. We also help individual refugees to access housing, services and employment, through the Refugee Integration and Employment Service [RIES], and provide central support and coordination for all of the local projects funded by the Migration Impacts Fund.

Intelligence and research  We collate and share information about the nature and impacts of migration, to help make sure that the needs of all migrant groups are met in local strategies and plans. For more information, go to intelligence and research. 

How do we work?

The Partnership works by bringing agencies together to help coordinate their activities, for example local authorities, the voluntary sector, UK Border Agency, health, the police and the TUC. There is no fixed list of agencies, and no set number of partners – it depends what’s appropriate for a particular area of work at any one time.

We maintain a clear separation, in terms of both governance and operations, between our strategic role and our management of the delivery of the public sector accommodation contract.

What are our key priorities for this year?

We hope to:

• Strengthen our links to localities and clarify how we support local delivery.
• Work within our new political structures to ensure speedy, robust and accountable decision making for all of our work.
• Deliver our current contracts to the highest standard in a way which recognises and responds to the financial pressures we all face.
• Provide leadership on discussions around the future delivery of asylum services and the procurement of new sets of contracts - including taking a lead role at national level.
• Work through change - managing the transition from current to future contracts, and putting a structure in place that allows us to deliver efficiently and effectively.

More information

For more information about any aspect of the Partnership's work, please contact us.

See also

• Go to our publications page to download the Partnership Information Pack, which gives an outline of our work in pdf format, and the latest issue of the Partnership bulletin.
• Our funding