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Strategic Migration Partnership Structure

The Strategic Migration Partnership is a tiered regional network which encompasses grass roots organisations and a regional network of multi-agency fora and specialist and task groups which feed into the EEDA led Migrant Worker Steering Group, the EERA Asylum and Refugee Reference Group and the EERA Social Inclusion Panel, each with a mechanism to feed into the national bodies.

• Diagram of EERA Strategic Migration Partnership structure (41KB - PDF)

At regional level, the Strategic Migration Partnership supports and advises the Social Inclusion Panel, a standing meeting of the East of England Regional Assembly (EERA), one of the roles of which is to provide a forum for discussion of asylum, refugee and migrant worker issues in the East of England.

The Social Inclusion Panel consists of both stakeholder members and councillors, appointed by the Regional Assembly. This Panel fulfils the Assembly's role and interests by providing strategic leadership to tackle social exclusion in the East of England and feeds directly into the EERA Executive Committee (see terms of reference for the Social Inclusion Panel in 'Related documents' on the right).

The Migrant Worker Steering Group leads on migrant worker issues within the partnership, and provides strategic leadership for interagency co-operation in addressing issues facing migrant workers, existing communities and businesses and the region as a whole.

The EERA Asylum and Refugee Reference Group is a multi-agency, multi-disciplinary body that draws together a wide range of stakeholders to take a strategic lead in adressing issues facing asylum seekers, unsuccessful asylum seekers and refugees in the region (see terms of reference and operating procedures for the Reference Group in 'Related documents' on the right).

The National Migration Group, the Local Government Association (LGA) Task Group and the National Migration Impacts Forum all provide a national platform to engage with central Government on policy and operational issues relating to asylum seekers, refugees and migrant workers. The EERA Strategic Migration Partnership is currently represented at each of these meetings.

• The National Migration Group provides a national consultative forum on migration issues for the Agency, the Regional Strategic Migration Partnerships and other key partners (see terms of reference for the National Migration Group in 'Related documents' on the right)

• The LGA Task Group is made up of regional member representation covering all of the English regions, Wales and Scotland and focuses upon the issues around the asylum, refugee and migrant worker agenda from a local government perspective (see terms of reference for the LGA Task Group in 'Related documents' on the right)

• The National Migration Impacts Forum  was launched by its co-chairs, Liam Byrne, Minister for Immigration at the Home Office, and Phil Woolas, Minister for Communities at the Department for Communities and Local Government, on 21 June 2007, when it met for the first time in London. Its aim is to bring together interested parties from outside government to consider the wider impacts of migration so that information and stakeholder concerns can inform government thinking, both on migration and on community cohesion (see terms of reference for the National Migration Impacts Forum in 'Related documents' on the right).