May is here once again and, once again, a team from ASIRT will be taking part in the Birmingham Legal Walk, supporting the Midland Legal Support Trust’s aim of improving access to justice for the most vulnerable in society. Successive cuts to legal aid budgets and austerity measures have served… Read More
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No Such Thing as a Free Lunch?
Access to Free School Meal provision for children denied recourse to public funds in Birmingham. Dave Stamp & Sarina Hussain Introduction. This document will explore the phenomenon of food poverty for children in Birmingham denied free school meal provision as a consequence of their denial of recourse to public funds…. Read More
‘If I don’t belong here, where do I belong’?
I’m a migrant. For those who are aware of migrants – you know that we all have our own unique story. I’m going to tell you my story. However, what I’d like you to keep in mind whilst I tell you my story is that it’s not entirely about me…. Read More
Children’s Support Worker
Recruiter ASIRT Location Birmingham Salary £22-£24,222k (negotiable based on experience) Closes 16th May, 2019 noon Sector Charities/ Voluntary Job Type Communities, Voluntary Contract Type Fixed term July 2019 to March 31st 2020m( secondment cover) Working Pattern Flexible (core hours 10 am – 4 pm, Monday to Friday) Hours 35 per week Children’s… Read More
ASIRT has moved!
ASIRT has now moved to new premises in Digbeth, on the south side of the city centre. Our new office is more easily accessible from across the West Midlands, being very close to Digbeth Coach Station and New Street and Moor Street railway stations. Our new address is: 109 Zellig… Read More
After ‘Windrush’?
Months after the ‘Windrush’ scandal caught the public imagination- sparking a public debate on the wilful institutional neglect which contributed to the destruction of thousands of lives- distressing stories continue to hit the news. Yesterday, for example, we read of the early death of Sarah O’Connor, who had been resident… Read More
Strategy or chaos?
ASIRT has recently begun working with ‘Tina’, the intelligent and formidable single mother of ‘Brendan’, who is 13. Brendan is British. He acquired his citizenship from his father, Tina’s ex-partner, who has passed away. Tina, however, is not British. Because of this, she is required by the Home Office to… Read More
Justice For Sale
Today’s the day of the Birmingham Legal Walk, and a team from ASIRT will be joining hundreds of other walkers to raise funds for justice. As recent events, including the Windrush scandal, have demonstrated, the UK’s immigration system is broken. Lives are being wasted and put on hold as… Read More
When Every Child Doesn’t Matter
In a week in which it has been reported both that UNICEF has determined the UK to have the worst record in the European Union for child hunger, and that children living in poverty are routinely being denied access to free school meals because of their parents’ immigration statuses, we… Read More
‘Tell Me How It Ends’
I’ve recently read Valeria Luiselli’s excellent ‘Tell Me How It Ends’, an account of the author’s experience of working as a volunteer interpreter for migrant children at risk of deportation from Trump’s America. In one passage, Luiselli recounts a conversation with her young daughter about her work, in which she… Read More
