The Community Planning Partnership agreed to participate in the UK Government's Syrian Vulnerable Persons' Relocation Scheme (SVPR) administered by the Home Office and paid for by the UK Government. In Dumfries and Galloway a commitment was made to resettle 20 families and by March 2021 this was achieved. Early in 2021 the Home Secretary announced that 20,080 Syrian refugees had been resettled in the UK.
During 2020 to 2021 the Community Planning Partnership Board extended the project to include: EU returnees following UK Exit from the EU; Hong Kong returnees; and the Afghan Assistance and Relocation Policy and Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme. In March 2022 the remit was further extended to incude Ukrainian Guests; and in June 2023 to include support for the Home Office Asylum Seeker Dispersal Programme, and the use of contingency hotels.
Remit
The board's remit is:
- to be responsible for the delivery of the overall project plan
- allocate and monitor budget for the project
- remove any barriers to achieving the objectives
- to ge tagreement of the workstreams leads, memberships and remits
Membership
Dumfries and Galloway Resettlement Project Board.
Chair: Community Planning and Engagement Manager (DGC)
Workstream leads:
- Communications : DGC (Communications)
- Education and employment : DGC (Lifelong Learning)
- Finance, Governance, and Performance: DGC (Community Planning and Engagement)
- Housing and homes: DGC (Social Work Services)
- Health and social care: NHS Dumfries and Galloway (Psychological Services)
- Police Scotland
- DGC Social Work Services
- Welcome Hub, Community support and orientation: DGC (Community Planning and Engagement)
The workstream memberships cover a wider range of public and third sector organisations including:
- Aberlour
- Barnados
- Crichton Trust
- Department of Work and Pensions
- Dumfries and Galloway Citizens Advice Services
- Dumfries and Galloway Council (Economy and Development; Social Work, Education, Neighbourhood Services, Community Services)
- Dumfries and Galloway Interfaith Group
- Dumfries and Galloway Multicultural Association
- Dumfries and Galloway Refugee Action (MOOL)
- Police Scotland
- Registered Social Landlords, (Riverside, Home, Loreburn Housing Association, Wheatley South, Cunninghame)
- Social Security Scotland
- Scottish Fire and Rescue Service
- The Hub, Dumfries
- Third Sector Dumfries and Galloway
- Scottish Refugee Council
Contact us
For Syrian, Afghan and Ukrainian matters, email the Resettlement Project.
Email: [email protected]
For asylum seeker matters, email the the Asylum Dispersal Team.
Email: [email protected]