Brexit Answer: EU Settlement Scheme - How can organisations support EU citizens?
Brexit Answers is a series of online Q&A discussions, hosted by Brexit Civil Society Alliance, to bring policy experts and civil society organisations together.
In these difficult and uncertain times, Brexit is quite rightly taking a back seat but, unless it changes, the UK is still set to leave the transition period at the end of 2020. What comes after is currently unknown as the future relationship between the EU and the UK is being negotiated. During this civil society faces uncertainty about the impacts Brexit will have on their organisations and the communities it works with.
Brexit Answers: EU Settlement Scheme - how can organisations support EU citizens? This session of Brexit Answers is an opportunity for civil society organisations to learn more about the impact of Brexit on EU citizen’s rights and the EU Settlement Scheme.
How can third sector organisations best support EU citizens in applying for the scheme? What is the hostile environment and why is there a concern that EU citizens may be subject to it after Brexit? What is the Home Office doing in response to Covid-19? What risks do Covid-19 represent to EU citizens applying for the scheme?
Joining us to answer all these questions and more is Danai Galaziou from the AIRE Centre, Tamara Flanigan from the New Europeans, and Caitlin Boswell-Jones from JCWI
Our Brexit Answers series is free and available online. This session on Wednesday 27th May from 10.00 to 11:30. Sign up to this session and more using the button below. You will also have the chance to submit your question to the experts.
A bit about our experts:
Caitlin Boswell-Jones joined JCWI in July 2019 to lead on the EU citizens project, campaigning for EU citizens' rights through reform of the EU Settlement Scheme and monitoring its impact particularly for marginalised groups most at risk of slipping through the cracks in the scheme.
Prior to this she worked as an Advocate & Outreach Worker, providing one-to-one support for migrant women affected by the criminal justice system and/or immigration restrictions.
Before working in the migration sector, Caitlin studied for a Masters in Gender & Law at SOAS, writing her thesis on the UK asylum system's treatment of LGBTQ asylum seekers.
Danai Galaziou joined the AIRE Centre in July 2019 as an EUSS project manager. In this role she assists vulnerable people in applying under the EU settlement scheme, provides legal advice on complex cases and delivers training to grassroot organisations to better understand the complexities of the EUSS. Danai is Level 2 accredited by the Law Society to provide immigration advice and has previously worked as an asylum caseworker in a Law firm.
Tamara Flanagan OBE is a fundraising and senior advisor at the New Europeans. Tamara has 20 years experience of European Funding and Advocacy Training; Transnational work; Managing EU projects; Project Evaluation. At European level, she has worked with a range of actors on social policy issues, including the Citizenship Unit in DG Justice, where she was a member of the Active Citizenship Structural Dialogue Group. Tamara has also worked with the European Parliament, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Council of Europe where she advised on texts on active citizenship and volunteering in the International NGO group. She was a founder member of the European Year of Volunteering Alliance 2011, and was part of the leadership team which over three years, drove a European wide campaign with 27 other agencies on EYV2011.