Migration data for the Humber What’s available and what does it tell us?
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Migration data for the Humber
What’s available and what does it tell us?
Available data
‘Easily’ accessible
• Population trends and migration estimates
• Migrant workers
• International students at universities
• Pupil first language
• National migration trends
Negotiable
• Local authority level data on A8 workers
• Asylum seekers and some refugees
• Locally collected data by individual services
Sources of information and support
Introduction to Migration Statistics gives links to:
(Inter)national and local datasetsLocal Government Association guideCommentary on national migration statistics and the net migration target (IPPR)Local Information Systems in the region www.migrationyorkshire.org.uk/statistics
New JSNA Guide to Migrant Health
Local Migration Profile project
Driven by partner agencies struggling to find and use migration data to prepare for migrants in their client groups
Flexible design
Regular outputs combining available data for each local authority area and subregions
Send me everything
How many immigrants are
there?
What’s unique?
Non-specialist audience
Compares different sources
Change over time and space
Compares locality to the regional ‘average’
Regular updates to include new data
Mainstream service applications
General migration background for mainstream services (internal briefings, media)
Population profiling requirements: JSNA (health), LEA and EIA (LAs)
Targeting specific groups: burglary prevention (housing services), engaging with minority communities (police and fire services)
Research support: local studies (arts and leisure), choosing research sample sites
Migrant service applications
Specific data for migrant services
Needs assessments for new services (Red Cross destitution work, Barnardo’s scoping needs of asylum children)
Evidence in grant applications (Police)
Planning for existing services (languages for translation materials, UKBA LITs)
Improving services (asylum dispersal sites, improving LA support for vulnerable groups following inspection)
Current migration trends in the Humber
Small decrease in net international migrationchurn everywhere, increases in Hull / NE Lincs, decreases in East Riding and North Lincs, internal moves
Fewer asylum seekers and refugees - in Hull
Expanding migrant families especially in Hull and North Lincs
Accession migration beginning to stabiliseincreases in Latvian and Lithuanian arrivals
Impact on rural areasdependency on agricultural workers in East Riding?
Gaps in the data
Particular migrant groups:Those joining families already hereFurther education and ESOL learnersPeople with no recourse to public fundsPeople leaving the UK (and by what route)
Alternative migration indicators:Local servicesRegistered employers and education providersLocal research
What’s coming up in 2011?
Less data? Fewer services producing data, localism drive reducing targets and local government reporting requirements
Ending of transitional arrangements for A8 countries will end WRS data
Net migration target reducing entry to UK across formal routes (work, study, asylum) – possible entry through other routes?
New inclusion of pupil data in our profiles
Our role as data users
Balancing risk…
limited access to sensitive data
political sensitivity and gatekeeping
how much data should we collect?
…and benefit:
a more informed ‘debate’ on migration
improved data expertise among migrant services
bridging the gap between policy, practice, data and research - better services for whole communities