Greater Manchester Refugee Integration Partnership  (RTOF)

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<p>RTOF is a national initiative which seeks to improve employment, housing, and wider integration outcomes for newly recognised refugees. The key aims of the RTOF programme are to: 1) Enable innovative and place-based approaches to supporting newly recognised refugees in the selected local areas. 2)Improve employment, housing, and wider integration outcomes for newly recognised refugees in the selected local areas and to increase refugee self-sufficiency 3)Generate evidence about what works, to be able to evaluate the impact of funded projects on refugee integration and self-sufficiency. GMCA acts as the lead partner for RTOF (or GMRIP) in GM, coordinating and providing strategic oversight to the delivery across all 10 boroughs across its duration from January 2022-March 2024. GMCA works in collaboration with dedicated key workers and strategic leads in each Local Authority as well as Specialist Employment Support providers - Breaking Barriers and Caritas Salford’s The Entrepreneurial Refugee Network (TERN).&nbsp; Once enrolled, service users receive 1-2-1 holistic support with a keyworker, including support to access healthcare, sign up to welfare benefits, improve English language and digital skills, build social connections, look for work and find housing. The project also seeks to build and strengthen links between Local Authorities and specialist VCSE organisations already working with refugees, in order to develop the systems and partnerships needed to deliver effective place-based support for refugee integration in the longer-term.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Eligibility To be eligible individuals must have received refugee status or humanitarian protection on or after 24th February 2020.&nbsp;&nbsp;Individuals must be economically active (actively seeking work or ready to take steps towards securing work in the foreseeable future)?and therefore need to: be of working age (18 or over, and under the State Pension age); not be in full-time education; be available for work in the foreseeable future, even if not ‘ready’ to work straight away due to factors such as housing, mental health or language barriers.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Refugees resettled to the UK are unfortunately not eligible.</p> Keywords: Refugees , Housing , Employment , Transition fund