Refugee Action
Registered Office:
The Offices,
The Cedars, Oakwood,
Derby DE2 4FY.
Tel. 0332 - 833310
Chairman: Lord Chitnis
Director: Julia Meiklejohn
1986/1987
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please reply to: Vietnamese Centre, The Cedars, Oakwood, Derby DE2 4FY
Tel: 0332 - 831273
18th March 1986
Resettlement from Reception Centre:
Hong Kong cases
(assumption: 36 family units to be resettled in 12 months)
Salaries: 2 full-time resettlement workers
1 part-time housing worker
Salaries + N.I.
17,677.50
Resettlement expenses:
minibus costs/petrol/ van hire etc.
£150 per resettlement.
x 36
5,400
Admin. expenses:
for housing/settlement work. £250 per month.
x 12
3,000*
22,542
NB Approximately 50% of Refugee Action cases need to use the Reception Centre - this amounts to more than 50% of the refugees on Refugee Action's list as a 'case' can vary from consisting of a single person, to an extended family of 20 made up of several family units. As a rule, the larger families, and the extended families, are the ones who require Reception accommodation.
Part-time housing worker
The housing worker receives information from Refugee Action's Family Reunion office in Leeds about which applicants have asked for Reception accommodation for their relatives. The applicants are then contacted, and their relatives' housing needs are discussed. In many cases this is not straightforward
for example:
or
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When the family reunion is an extended family, it is necessary to work out with the applicant how the family divides up for housing purposes.
Where an applicant lives in an isolated area and feels that this is not suitable for the family reunion, possible alternative
resettlement areas must be discussed - bearing in mind the difficulty in applying for housing in an area where the new arrival has no local connection.
A Registered Charity No 283660
A Moriber of the British Refugas Council.
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