Useful Information

Initial help

Welcome And Reception Pack (540 KB)

Useful Links

www.harpweb.org.uk

The home of the Communicate multi-lingual appointment card. This site is for health professionals working with asylum-seekers and refugees but it has many resources, which are useful for anyone working with refugees and asylum-seekers, including a list of languages by country and a family tree of languages. Links to cultural information which is very interesting, details of how religions, culture etc varies by country.

www.multikulti.org.uk

A resource of translated leaflets etc in community languages

www.dwp.gov.uk

Site for Department of Work and Pensions leaflets translated into different languages.

www.movinghere.org.uk

A site with the stories of immigrants to the UK from the Caribbean, the Indian sub-continent, and Ireland (amongst others)

www.refugeecouncil.org.uk

Translated resources about being a refugee and the asylum process with news and comment about refugee and asylum-seeker issues - another site where myths are exploded.

Hints and Tips

Working With Interpreters (536 KB)

Working with people who speak little or no English (536 KB)

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