A new intensive support model to help lived experience-led organisations deliver immigration advice by getting registered with the Immigration Advice Authority (IAA) (formerly known as the OISC).
Training and mentoring for frontline staff to prepare for IAA assessments, become a qualified adviser and build confidence and competence in their new role.
We offer needs assessment, help to plan your growing service and advice remit, support through the IAA registration process and Continuing Professional Development, and membership of a Community of Practice to connect with other organisations on the same journey.
One manager and one frontline staff member, each with lived-experience of migration, will commit to participating in the project to gain full benefit from the project.
Close support for 6-8 grass-roots organisations led by people with lived-experience of migration to grow their service by delivering legal, immigration advice to their clients is now available, free-of-charge, through the Frontline Immigration Advice Project (FIAP).
We will train frontline staff, and support managers to plan, adapt services, and apply to register with the Immigration Advice Authority (IAA) in order to deliver greatly-needed legal advice to their service-users.
*(IAA - formerly known as the OISC)
This a unique opportunity to access holistic support and training, tailored for the charity sector. It is ideal for growing, grass-roots organisations led by people with lived experience of migration.
Don’t stress! If you’re not sure whether your organisation meets some of the criteria below. Please complete the form below as best you can. We’ll get in touch if we have any questions.
For the purposes of this project, lived experience led means that there are staff / volunteers with lived-experience of migration working throughout your organisation, ideally at every level, particularly in managerial, senior leadership and trustee roles. And that people with lived experience of migration have a significant impact in the design and delivery of your services. We will ask you to complete a survey to help us assess this.
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*Don’t worry, you don’t need to have every single detail planned. Just tell us as much as you can. We can help you figure the rest out.
The table below is just a rough guide to the time-commitments involved. Overall, it is important that both the organisational lead and the training advisor can take part fully in the project and IAA registration process, alongside trustees and senior managers doing their bit, too.
Complete reporting surveys and/or interviews: 1 hour once every 6 months.
Co-design Advisory Panel - 1.5 hours every 2-3 months.
Training in Immigration law at Level 1 and/or Level 2: minimum of 5 days, preferably consecutive
Study leave to prepare for IAA assessments: 5 days recommended
Opportunity to become a Refugee Action Volunteer, if you wish, after 6 months of active commitment to the project.
If so, please complete this Expression of Interest form.
If you would like to know more, please sign up to our Lived Experience Community of Practice & Info Session here.
We’d love to know more about what the term 'lived-experience' means to your organisation. Please let us know here.
If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to get in touch with Dan.
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