The New Arrivals Alliance aims to provide a focus and steering group for the multi-agency, multi-disciplinary body that draws together a wide range of statutory and non-statutory organisations and stakeholders. It will develop the asylum and refugee integration work programme in the City of Derby and facilitate a partnership approach to meeting the diverse needs of asylum seekers and refugees and capitalising on the fantastic existing work being carried out within our communities.
The Alliance will work to ensure equality and best practice, as it relates to new arrivals, is implemented and followed. It will seek to agree and progress priorities for sustaining refugee integration and support as well as meeting key milestones of community cohesion.
It aims to adopt a multi-agency long-term problem-solving approach based on the public health model to deliver optimum outcomes to new arrivals in the city and support and direct relevant services working in the field.
We aim to make Derby an increasingly welcoming and supportive place for migrants, bringing together individuals, groups, and organisations to meet, think and share information, ensuring that the voices of migrants are heard and influence those in charge to positively evolve policy and practice.
The New Arrivals Alliance is a mechanism for developing and influencing policy, and promoting good practice in areas which might affect migrant communities in Derby. We aim to strengthen the voice and influence of migrants, enable other groups to better understand their concerns and priorities, as well as integrating new arrivals into the city and addressing the inequality of access to services.
We aim to be constructive, open, and honest whilst respecting sensitive matters and appropriate confidentiality. The project will engage representatives from a diversity of appropriate interest groups.
For more information about the Alliance please see documents below:
New Arrivals Alliance - Terms of Reference (59.58 KB)
New Arrivals Alliance - Project Update July 2024 (38.52 KB)
Key Partners
- Derby Refugee Solidarity – DRS
- Derby Refugee Advice Centre – DRAC
- Upbeat Communities
- Derby City Council, Derby Homes, Derby Public Health Commission, HIV Protection Group, Derby Cost of living Working Group, Derby Poverty Commission, Vulnerable Population & Health Inclusion Group
- City of Sanctuary - Derby
- Derby University/University of Derby
- DWP
- Derbyshire Police including Community policing/SNT and Hate Crime Co-ordinator
- Hope at Home
- Red Cross
- Tell Mama
- Inspirative Arts
- SERCO
- Derby College
- East Midlands Strategic Migration Partnership
- Ground Work 5 Counties
- Rebuild East Midlands
- DACCI – Derby African Caribbean Community Initiative
- Derby Safe Haven
- Freedom Foundation (Anna Malik)
- Migrant Help
- Shared reading initiative
- Youth Alliance
- Food for Thought alliance
