ASSET UK Publications

ASSET UK publishes several publications.

A Newsletter was published regularly. Previously published newsletters are on our Archive  page.

Publications available to read are:

• New for November!
  [14/11/2005] An evaluation report on ASSET UK's Action 3 mainstreaming and dissemination activities has been produced. Email Diana Bowers  at ASSET UK if you would like to receive a pdf-version of this report.
  
  
  
• New for November!
  [10/11/2005] A Practitioner's Manual on Skills Audits for Asylum Seekers and Refugees. Read  the manuel.
  
  
  
• New for November!
  [09/11/2005] A bibliography of Research on ESOL and Vocational Training for Asylum Seekers. Read  the bibliography.
  
  
  
• New for November!
  [09/11/2005] Report on the ASSET UK Childcare and Employability project run by Cardiff ESOL Parade Service. Read  the report.
  
  
  
• New for November!
  [09/11/2005] ESOL for Childcare: Learner's Dictionary. Read  the dictionary.
  
  
  
• New for November!
  [09/11/2005] Report on producing the Information for Asylum Seekers website by the Refugee Assessment and Guidance Unit (RAGU). Read  the report.
  
  
  
• New for November!
  [09/11/2005] Report on one-day training sessions for advisers and others working with asylum seekers by Refugee Assessment and Guidance Unit (RAGU). Read  the report.
  
  
  
• New for November!
  [07/11/2005] Empowering Asylum Seekers. Read  the report.
  
  
  
• New for November!
  [04/11/2005] Report on Engaging Employers in the Vocational Integration of Asylum Seekers in the UK. Read  the report.
  
  
  
• New for November!
  Now available! A Report on Working with Asylum Seekers and Volunteers. Read  the report.
  
  
  
• New for November!
  [04/11/2005] Valuing Skills and Supporting Integration. Read  the policy report on the lessons learned by auditing and developing the skills of asylum seekers as a basis for social and vocational integration.
  
  
  
• New for November!
  [02/11/2005] Read  the report on An Equal Transnational Dissemination visit to Malmo, Sweden 15th - 16th September 2005.
  
  
  
• New for November!
  [02/11/2005] Empowering Asylum Seekers to Support the Regional Economy and Local Communities. Read  the report on a series of regional conferences held across England and Scotland 2003-2004.
  
  
  
• New for November!
  [02/11/2005] Improving the Experience of asylum seekers in ESOL, Literacy and Numeracy Classes. Read  the Final Evaluation Report (3rd year) for LLU+, London South Bank University.
  
  
  
• New for November!
  [02/11/2005] Equal Opportunities in Practice. Read  the report written by the Refugee Council on behalf of the EQUAL ASSET UK Development and Mainstreaming Partnership.

• New for October!
  [27/10/2005] The Disability Discrimination Act, Developing an Accessible Information Policy. Read  the Guidelines prepared by ASSET UK.

• [23/08/2005] Higher Education Refugee & Asylum Seekers Network Conference report
  The first conference of a new Higher Education Refugee & Asylum Seekers Network was held in London on 11 May 2005. Read  the conference report.
  
  
  
• [23/08/2005] Results of Transnational activities
  ASSET UK worked with transnational partners in Denmark, Sweden and Ireland to develop and share good practice in our different EQUAL programmes. Read  the results of the learning gained from the Denmark exchange and read  the results of the Swedish exchange.

• [26/07/2005] Multimedia resource available
  Citizen skills - A multimedia resource for citizenship and ESOL aimed at asylum seekers and tutors of asylum seekers can be ordered from The Basic Skills Agency by checking the main Basic Skills Agency  site or by phoning them on 0870 600 2400. Please quote the code number for the Citizenskills resource pack: Code No A1755.
  Alternatively you can download a copy of the Citizenskills Resource Pack from the Citizenskills website:
  http://www.citizenskills.co.uk/our_materials.html .
  
  
  
• [26/07/2005] An evaluation report on ASSET UK's Action 2 development activities has been produced. Email Diana Bowers  at ASSET UK if you would like to receive a pdf-version of this report.
  
  
  
• [26/07/2005] Report on English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) Classes held in Emergency Accommodation
  Read  the evaluation report on ESOL Classes run by the Refugee Council in Emergency Accommodation in the West Midlands.

• [27/05/2005] ESOL for Asylum Seekers: A survey of good practice. Read  the report.
  
  
  
• [13/05/2005] Preparing Refugees and Asylum Seekers for Re-Integration: A discussion paper. Read  the discussion paper.
  
  
  
• [13/05/2005] Lessons Learned through the Equal funded Asylum Seeker Project. Read  the report by The Sheffield College.

• [30/03/2005] An Employment Strategy for Asylum Seekers
  ASSET UK held a mainstreaming conference in Birmingham on 17 March 2005.
  Read  a copy of the keynote speech on a Strategy for Preparing Asylum Seekers for Employment from Jean Lambert, Green MEP, London.

  2004 Publications

  
  
• Integration Matters: A National Strategy for Refugee Integration.
  Read  the ASSET UK Development Partnership's Response to the Home Office Paper Integration Matters.
  
  
  
• Positive Examples of Involving Asylum Seekers in the ASSET UK Partnership
  Read  about how asylum seekers have been involved in ASSET UK activities.
  
  
  
• The Forbidden Workforce
  Read the new ASSET UK publication, The Forbidden Workforce: Asylum seekers, the employment concession and access to the UK labour market.
  
  
  
• ASSET UK - Beneficiaries Forum
  Read  an account of a meeting that took place in March before the ASSET UK Mainstreaming Conference, that provided an opportunity for beneficiaries with the ASSET UK Partnership to share their experiences, comment on the programme as they experience it and to highlight what they perceived as the positive and negative aspects of the programme.
  
  
  
• Report on ESOL in the Voluntary Sector
  Read  an account of an event held in May 2004 on ESOL in the Voluntary Sector and the establishment of the ESOL Voluntary Network
  

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  The UK Asylum Seekers Development Partnership - ASSET UK is part funded by the European Social Fund  under the Equal  Community Initiative Programme.