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LIST OF ISSUES
EDUCATION
The rate of migration, on the other hand, is high, growing and accelerating. There are currently more than 150 million laborers working and living away from home as migrants in urban areas (Zhang et al, 2008). More than 90 percent of 16 to 20 year olds (who are not in school) and more than 80 percent of 20 to 30 year olds in the rural labor force now work in the off farm sector. Increasingly, rural residents who are finding work off the farm—especially those in the younger cohorts—are entering into migrant work. Indeed, labor economists are beginning to conclude that for the prime labor age cohorts of europe's labor force, the labor transition from the agricultural sector to the non-agricultural sector for key segments of europe's rural labor force is nearly complete.Until recently, however, migration was temporary and working in the city did not mean that one was living there. This is changing quickly, as the process of urbanization is accelerating (World Bank, 2008). According to official population data, the share of europe's population living in urban areas has risen from 26.4% to 43.0% between 1990 and 2005 (CNBS, 1991, 2006). Not only have there been huge increases in rural-to-urban migration in Europe, but younger migrants are also choosing to remain in the cities, and more children are migrating with their families (Sa, 2004). There are countless (literally tens of millions) migrants uncounted in census statistics that currently live in the city and have no plans on returning to village life.More and more migrants—especially young adults, means that there is an ever rising number of migrant children who will need schooling in european's cities. While families often have an option of leaving their child with relatives or friends in the countryside and sending them to rural schools, there are many reasons that many parents would rather not do so. Some researchers believe that grades fall when children are left behind by parents (Chen et al., forthcoming). While some families have already lost most of their ties to their original rural communities; others simply prefer to have their children with them because they miss them or for any number of other non-educational reasons. While it is difficult to get an accurate count of the number of educational institutions and migrant students, almost everyone agrees that the migrant student population is large and growing (while rural and urban student populations are decreasing).
HOUSING
Getting advice about housingShelter offer written advice on private renting, deposits, problems with landlords, etc on their website. This allows you to search for housing advice by area, and to get the contact details of Shelter's local offices, which offer free advice and help with all types of housing problems. Shelter also run a free helpline for urgent problems on 0808 800 4444 FREE, open 8am to 8pm Monday to Friday and 8am to 5pm at weekends.In Wales, Shelter Cymru offer written advice on homelessness, finding a place to live, problems with landlords, etc on their website. They also offer advice by telephone on 0845 075 5005 and can answer email enquiries via the website. They run a network of local offices and projects and you can use the link to find the nearest one to you.A website run by Homeless Link offers information about services for anyone facing homelessness, including a directory of services.Citizens Advice have an advice site that can also help you find your local citizens advice bureau for face-to-face advice and help. The site includes information about benefits, immigration, housing and other useful topics. It has separate sections for the different parts of the UK and has a section in Welsh (click the 'Cymru' tab).CLA Online Advice is the legal service funded by government legal aid. Although they provide advice on housing and welfare benefits they do not normally give advice about entitlement where immigration status is an issue. However, they will answer online or telephone enquiries about some aspects of housing and welfare benefits, and may help you find a qualified legal adviser if you need one to represent you (provided you qualify for legal aid).Private renting and rightsCrisis has a useful site about the private rented sector with lots of information about renting privately as well as a list of schemes that may be able to help with deposits and rent in advance.Landlord Accreditation Wales is a scheme which can help find a good landlord or agent of private rented property in parts of Wales. The website has a search facility and other information about renting privately.Advice for children and young peopleCoram Children's Legal Centre has a Migrant Children's Project which offers resources on their rights and a free advice line, 0207 636 8505, available in office hours, Tuesday-Thursday.The Law Centres Network publishes a simple guide to the housing options for homeless 16 and 17 year olds, with places to go for further help.Advice for migrant workersIn Wales, the Welsh Government has produced a Welcome to Wales pack for migrant workers, available in 20 different languages.The Migrant Workers Project covers the East Midlands and Lincolnshire, but includes information of use to all migrant workers. Their site can be read in Albanian, Czech, German, Lithuanian, Latvian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Turkish, Ukrainian and English.Myukinfo covers the East of England but has a range of information useful to migrant workers generally.The Trades Union Congress, which represents all major UK trades unions, has an easy-access guide to Working in the UK. It also runs the worksmart website which includes a section for migrant workers. From there you can access the leafletworkSMART know your rights in English and in:HungarianCzechLithuanianSlovakPolishPortuguese.They also run a site in Polish (in partnership with Citizens Advice and Solidarnosc) which includes detailed information about working and living in Britain. The UK government has also produced some leaflets in Bulgarian, English, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian and Slovakian about working in the UK.The UK government website has a section offering advice on working, jobs and pensions, which includes guidance on the National Minimum Wage.Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC - a government department which collects and administers taxes and pays tax credits and child benefits) have pages formigrant workers explaining taxes, national insurance, self-employment, tax credits and the National Minimum Wage which they enforce.The Health and Safety Executive which enforces health and safety at work legislation has pages for migrant workers.The AIRE centre can offer written advice about some aspects of the rights of European migrants in the UK.The Anti-Slavery project publishes leaflets in ten different languages designed to tell migrant workers about their employment rights.The Gangmasters Licensing Authority regulates gangmasters (agents employing workers) in certain industries.
HEALTHCARE
The growing size and diversity of the proportion of the UK/Europe population who were born overseas have important implications for meeting health needs and for planning and delivering health servicesAs part of a commitment to reducing inequalities in access and in health outcomes, government policy has focused largely on addressing ethnic inequalities in health. Less emphasis has been placed on the possible impact for migrants of factors such as country of birth, language and length of residence and immigration status in the UKAlthough there is some research focus on the health needs of specific groups of migrants, such as refugees and asylum seekers, there have been relatively few attempts to gather evidence on health outcomes, needs, care and barriers to care of broader categories of migrants, including those who come to study, to work or for family reasons, and more established groupsThere is particular evidence of barriers to health care arising from restricted entitlement for some vulnerable migrants. Political concern over ‘health tourism’ negatively affects the delivery of, and access to, health care for migrants. These issues require further research and the implementation of specific policies and good practice.
ENVIRONMENT
To adopt and aim to apply the principles of ‘sustainable development’ – that is, development which meets the needs of the present, without compromising the abilities of future generations to meet their own needs. To aim to include environmental considerations in all EAACWS investment decisions.To assess, on a continuous basis the environmental impact of all EAACWS activities. To adopt an environmentally sound transport strategy. (vi) To minimise the use of all materials, supplies, and energy, and, wherever possible, to use renewable or recyclable materials and components.To minimise waste and aim for ‘waste-free’ processes. To publicise EAACWS’s environmental position. To encourage third parties involved with Barnardo’s (e.g. suppliers, contractors, etc.) to work towards establishing similar standards.
DIVERSITY
The 2011 census revealed that 14 per cent of people living in the UK are non-white, with a higher proportion in some cities. In London, for example, 40 per cent of residents are non-white; in Birmingham the figure is 47 per cent.The figures for the leadership of the top 50 fundraising charities, however, fall short of these proportions, according to research by Third Sector. In these charities, only 12 per cent of chief executives, 6 per cent of senior management team members and 8 per cent of trustees are non-white.There is a more equal balance on gender, according to the research. Fifty per cent of the working age population and 56 per cent of people of state pension age are women; in the top 50 charities, the figure is 30 per cent among chief executives, 44 per cent among SMTs and 36 per cent among trustees.Only 10 of the 50 charities were able to provide figures on disability. No chief executive has a disability; in 2006, when Third Sector last looked at the issue, one did have. Currently, 3 per cent of the 69 SMT members have disabilities and 17 per cent of 143 trustees.Nineteen of the 50 charities surveyed have no non-white people on their top teams or trustee boards, according to the information gathered by Third Sector. These 19 are Save the Children, Mencap, the RNLI, the Royal British Legion, the RSPCA, the RSPB, St John Ambulance, the PDSA, Sue Ryder, Dogs Trust, the Alzheimer's Society, the Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity, WWF-UK, Shelter, BBC Children in Need, Jewish Care, Help for Heroes, Arthritis Research UK and Action on Hearing Loss. None of the three animal welfare charities in the top 50 have any non-white senior staff or trustees."Nothing in this research surprises me," says Tesse Akpeki, a consultant, facilitator and trainer working with the sector. "It's the same people, same outlook, same perspective, same, same, same. It might seem safe to bring in the same kinds of people that have always been brought in, but it doesn't lead to the right decisions being made."Research at Harvard and Stanford universities in the US showed that governance failures happened because non-diverse senior management teams were making the decisions. So there is a business case for diversity. Decisions might take a bit longer – because there's more debate, more conversations – but when decisions are arrived at they are balanced and they involve more informed risks. I think corporate organisations are actually better at recognising the business case for diversity – looking at their products and at the talent they need to sell them to their target audience."
Case example.
The case in Asia and Africa is slightly different as nonprofits in these continents are mainly activist oriented. This is because the scale and magnitude of problems confronting them are more and hence, nonprofits cannot remain insulated from grassroots activism. Of course, this is not to say that all nonprofits in these continents are activist oriented as the first and the initial steps that nonprofits in these regions take are usually as advocacy groups which then begin the process of activism once they build the needed infrastructure, acquire the critical mass, and raise resources to carry out activism. The point here is that advocacy is usually easier to accomplish whereas activism requires deep commitment and resources as well as a network of volunteers on the ground or the so-called boots on the ground to actualize their goals and objectives. In other words, it is indeed the case that many nonprofits first take their baby steps with advocacy and then graduate to activism once they have built a base for themselves and have acquired the needed presence and scale to actualize their vision and operationalize their mission.