[sheffield-noborders] CADDI events

[stuart crosthwaite]

Hi All
 
The Campaign Against Detention and Deportation of Iraqis (CADDI) is organising 2 events:
 
1. Planning meeting: Tuesday 4th October at Norooz restaurant Spital Hill at 7pm
 
2. Lobby Sheffield City Council, 1.30pm Town Hall Wednesday 5th October to say Iraq is not safe, no deportations and to demand the council supports the right of Iraqi Kurds to stay in Sheffield; that it refuses to implement Section 9 of the Asylum Act 2002 (information below) and supports council workers who refuse to comply with this legislation.
 
please forward this information
 
Stuart
 
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 WELFARE WORKERS - DEFY DON’T COMPLY! - LISTEN TO CHILDREN!          
 REFUSE TO IMPLEMENT SECTION 9 OF THE ASYLUM AND IMMIGRATION ACT 2004 
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Local authority, voluntary and private sector workers hear the
children’s voices

|  Stop child abductions  
|  Stop evicting families  
|  Stop deportations 

The background

Asylum seekers are now totally outside the welfare state.  They are
subject to a new poor law set up under 1999 legislation. Under this law
they are forcibly dispersed round the country and housed in often
sub-standard housing which can be local authority or housing association
or privately owned. The scheme is administered by an arm of the Home
Office, the so-called National Asylum Support Service (NASS).  

Section 9 institutes a new form of blackmail against asylum seekers with
children contesting their deportation. Unless such families return
“voluntarily” to the country from which they fled then NASS can evict
from accommodation dispersed to. Parent(s) will be made homeless and
families split by children being forced into local authority care. This
amounts to child abduction and is against the Children Act (1989), UN
Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) and the Human Rights Act
(1998) – all of which make the interests of the children paramount.

Opposition to Section 9

Section 9 is being implemented in Greater Manchester, the same area that
saw the most severe opposition to the Victorian poor laws -involving
running battles with troops, police and the poor law administrators.
Asylum seeking families and their children are now resisting. National
publicity has been given to the struggle of the Kanali family, the
Sukula family and Samina Altaf and her children.

This abduction of children, is undertaken by Social Workers. However,
the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) has said that they
expect them to strongly resist the implementation of this' 'brutal
power' and said 'BASW cannot overstate our opposition to this on the
grounds that it is a breach of our professional ethics' Neither the
dispersal scheme nor section 9 was initially objected to by any local
authority. However family and children resistance has compelled all
councils in Greater Manchester and one in Lancashire to write to the
Home Secretary opposing section 9.  Likewise section 9 has now been
condemned by Association of Directors of Social Services, which has
said, 'Ideas of this sort really belongs to an earlier century'.

What should be done?

a) Raise the issue in your union and professional body. Argue that
they organise  non-compliance and    protect their members who follow
the British Association of Social Workers and refuse to collude in
implementing section 9

b) Confirm that every child does matter by writing to the
Children’s Commissioner for England asking him to use his powers and
hold a pubic inquiry into the effects Section 9 has on children and
their families. He can be contacted via: 

                        support at childrenscommissioner.org

c) Pressurise your local authority to continue to house asylum
seekers evicted by NASS – and to withdraw from the involuntary dispersal
scheme. Refugees should be part of the welfare state!

No One is Illegal, Bolton Socialist Club, 16 Wood Street, Bolton, BL1 DY
Email: info at noii.org.uk Web: http://www.noii.org.uk




		
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