NCADC Aims and Objectives
Empowerment
- Giving people skills, confidence and resources to help themselves
- To help people without legal status to achieve legal status
1. NCADC welcomes as members all those who are:
* Resisting removal from the UK, whether they are people seeking asylum /people who have over stayed/economic migrants without papers/foreign nationals sentenced to imprisonment and deportation.
* Striving to bring their families to the UK.
* In the UK, with or without, leave to remain who support the 'Aims & Objectives' of NCADC.
2. NCADC will lobby to amend law and practice that lead to unjust or inhuman deportations, and assist in mounting effective campaigns against such deportations.
Specifically NCADC will lobby for:
* People seeking asylum to receive equal welfare benefits with British nationals while in the UK.
* People seeking asylum to be allowed to live where and with whom they want.
* People seeking asylum to have the right to seek and accept employment.
* People granted Humanitarian protection, or given Discretionary leave to have the right to bring their families to the UK immediately.
* Children born in the UK, regardless of their parent's status, to be recognised as UK nationals
* Unaccompanied minors and people suffering trauma as a result of torture. People who are mentally or physically ill or who have other needs and vulnerabilities, to receive appropriate care, counselling and support.
* Foreign nationals not to be subjected to "Double Punishment" if convicted of a crime by being deported after custodial sentence.
* People failed by the asylum system, who cannot be removed, to be given temporary admission, allowing them to seek work and access to normal welfare benefits.
* Migrants without papers working in the UK to be regularized
* Foreign nationals, who are spouses/partners/parents of UK nationals, not to be forced to leave the UK and seek re-entry.
* The immediate closure of all Immigration Removal Centres and immediate end to detaining persons liable to removal in prisons/police cells.
* The restoration of all legal aid until the end of the legal process
* The end of the practice of 'Fast tracking' asylum claims.
* To influence legislation / government policies.
3. NCADC will attempt to give advice and support to all whom seek assistance to campaign to remain in the UK including those resisting the deportation of:
* Families with children born in or outside the UK
* Women who have left violent husbands or employers
* Leaders of religious communities
* Spouses being separated from their husbands or wives
* Parents without leave to remain of children legally resident in the UK
* People in need of medical treatment unavailable or unaccessible in the countries to which they are to be deported
* Refugees with a well-founded fear of persecution
* Environmental refugees, economic refugees
4. NCADC will seek to organise nationally co-ordinated events drawing attention to the nature of deportation from the UK at the present time.
5. NCADC will aim to keep the public informed about the struggle against deportations, and support public events held by Anti-Deportation campaigns. Ensure the voice of otherwise 'invisible' people facing deportation is heard by working with communities and the media.
6. NCADC will seek to influence National organisations about the destructive levels and nature of detention and deportation. Including political parties, trades unions, churches and all faith communities, local authorities and legal associations, and to enter into alliances with these organisations to further the 'Aims and Objectives' of NCADC.
Organisation and Structure
7. NCADC will hold an Annual General Meeting in June of each year to elect a Management Committee (MC); the MC will have a Chair, Secretary and 10 members. At the AGM an annual report on NCADC activities over the last year over the last year and the audited accounts for the financial year will be presented.
8. NCADC MC will meet bi-monthly between AGM's.
9. Amendments to NCADC Aims and Objectives may be made at the AGM each year by being submitted in writing to the secretary of NCADC 28 days before the AGM.
10. Membership of NCADC is free to all those facing removal from the UK and to school students and those not in paid work. We ask for an annual membership fee of a minimum of £12 from all members in paid work.
