MEDICAL JUSTICE NETWORK LIMITED 

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Towards core and capital costs

Towards cost of living crisis

This is a cost of living uplift for grant reference 360G-trustforlondon-MAIN-S2-05.10.2021-9341

An unrestricted grant of £20,000 (This grant is renewable - year 1 of up to 3 years). Medical Justice aims to end medical mistreatment in immigration detention centres through assisting individuals ....more

An unrestricted grant of £20,000 (This grant is renewable - year 1 of up to 3 years). Medical Justice aims to end medical mistreatment in immigration detention centres through assisting individuals by providing medial evidence and casework across the UK.

The funding is to cover the costs of Medical Justice's Policy, Research & Parliamentary Manager to lead on work to challenge harmful Home Office policies and disseminating medical evidence and ....more

The funding is to cover the costs of Medical Justice's Policy, Research & Parliamentary Manager to lead on work to challenge harmful Home Office policies and disseminating medical evidence and research, getting it into the hands of others in the sector who can effect change.

Medical justice is a charity that offers medical help to those held in immigration detention in the UK. This is a three year unrestricted grant towards their work

An unrestricted grant of £20,000. Medical Justice provides focused medical support/evidence and advocacy for people in immigration removal centres.

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Grant to Medical Justice Network Limited meeting the additional costs of adapting services, premises or implementing other safety measures in response to the Covid pandemic.

COVID19 - Medical Justice needs additional funding to adapt its activities to meet increased need whilst contending with more challenging circumstances due to Covid19. We believe that the measures ....more

COVID19 - Medical Justice needs additional funding to adapt its activities to meet increased need whilst contending with more challenging circumstances due to Covid19. We believe that the measures will make Medical Justice more robust and effective longer-term, post Covid19.Medical Justice volunteer doctors document immigration detainees? scars of torture, serious medical conditions, injuries sustained during deportation attempts, deterioration of mental and physical health while detained indefinitely. We expose and challenge medical mistreatment in immigration detention. Our medico-legal reports are used to support detainees? substantive immigration cases and unlawful detention claims. Medical Justice uses its medical evidence to secure lasting change through policy work, strategic litigation, galvanising medical professional organisations, parliamentary channels, and the media.Looking at the Comic Relief criteria for this Covid Recovery grant, we feel we fit ;1. Experiencing an increased demand ? though many immigration detainees have been released, hundreds remain detained and the Home Office is fighting ?tooth and nail? to keep them detained indefinitely. Detainees typically need even more medical evidence than before to get released. In the courts, medical evidence is proving more pivotal than the fact that there are no flight to the detainee?s country due to the global Covid19 lockdown, how long the detainee has been in detention and other factors.2. Working with vulnerable groups ? immigration detention removal centres (IRCs) are congregate settings which risk acting as ?epidemiological pumps? with staff acting as conduits to and from the community. Covid19 has spread in IRCs. The vast majority of detainee are BAME men (both Covid19 risk factors), many of whom have co-morbidities that put them at high risk of sever illness following Covid19 infection. 3. Delivering an unmet need ? Those currently detained have an immediate and urgent need for medical evidence of their Covid19 co-morbidities. As they are being held for longer, their mental and physical health is more likely to deteriorate, and more severely so. Medical Justice is the only organisation in the UK that provides independent medical help for immigration detainees, and the only organisation that is expert at documenting deterioration caused by indefinite immigration detention.Medical Justice needs resulting from Covid19 include ;1. Additional caseworker resources ; --- To address urgent need for documenting Covid19 co-morbidities and hooking detainees up with legal representation for unlawful detention cases.--- To monitor casework and collate evidence with a view to potential strategic litigation challenging the Home Office?s failure to implement its own Covid19 policies, obstruct access to legal advice and independent medical advice, and failure to carry out correct individual risk assessments.2. Systems developmentTo strengthen our ability to make use of our medical evidence we need an IT solution to integrate our existing casework datasystem with non-casework data, such as litigation files, policy documents, and Home Office correspondence.Website overhaul ? as Covid19 is restricting our ability to hold training events, we need to bring more of our training and supervision online for our team of 100 volunteer interpreters and 85 clinicians, accessible via our website which is currently inadequate.3. Communications consultancy ? we do not have any Communications resource. We need some Comms expertise to operate more effectively in these unchartered waters, in terms of reaching detainees, volunteers, lawyers, journalists and parliamentarians.4. An extra office room ? we currently operate out of 33m2 office space in a shared building. When we are able to return to the office from working at home, we will need to rent an extra room to ensure we can practice social distancing and for possible medical assessments of released clients in order to complete medico-legal reports.We forecast a nearly £60,000 drop in income this financial year due to a reduction in medico-legal report fee income, associated donations (many volunteer doctors donate their fees back to Medical Justice in the minority of cases that get legal aid funding) and training fee income. We don?t think that income will grow back for perhaps a year or two.

NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more

NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots and small organisations who can provide an on-the-ground community response to the crisis; and, support local charitable organisations to mobilise volunteers to enable better targeted support in communities through empowered local groups.

Medical justice is a charity that offers medical help to those held in immigration detention in the UK. This is a one year unrestricted grant towards their work (fast-track one year grant renewal in ....more

Medical justice is a charity that offers medical help to those held in immigration detention in the UK. This is a one year unrestricted grant towards their work (fast-track one year grant renewal in response to Covid-19 pandemic).

towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 fast response grant

Around 25,000 people are detained in mainstream prisons and seven 'immigration removal centres' around the UK. They have not been accused of any crime, but are placed here for 'administrative ....more

Around 25,000 people are detained in mainstream prisons and seven 'immigration removal centres' around the UK. They have not been accused of any crime, but are placed here for 'administrative convenience'. These people can be detained indefinitely as there is no automatic judicial oversight. Medical Justice sends volunteer clinicians to visit immigration detainees to document torture scars in support of their asylum claims and legal status in the UK. The investment will cover core costs of the organisation so that they can provide direct support to individuals to access their rights, advocate to end detentions, and sway public opinion through positive representation of immigrants in media.

The project’s objective is to ensure our successful litigation reduces avoidable suffering of vulnerable immigration detainees.

Medical justice is a charity that offers medical help to those held in immigration detention in the UK. This is a one year unrestricted grant towards their work.

Medical justice is a charity that offers medical help to those held in immigration detention in the UK. This is a one year unrestricted grant towards their work.

Medical Justice is the only organisation in the UK that send volunteer Doctors into IRCs to document detainees wounds, mental and physical. His information is then used to help secure their release. ....more

Medical Justice is the only organisation in the UK that send volunteer Doctors into IRCs to document detainees wounds, mental and physical. His information is then used to help secure their release. The aggregated data is then used to provide evidence to secure to try for policy change at the Home Office. Their successes include limiting the detention of children and pregnant women.They have now recognised that valuable as these reforms are; the key policy and influencing aim for them now has to be to work to try to have IRCs closed down. Their staff are focussed on service delivery; so this funding will support them to increase their influencing and advocacy capacity to work alongside an

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Towards work to expose medical neglect in immigration detention and support torture survivors and other detainees to challenge institutional injustice.

The funding is towards research and policy work. This work is key in using its casework medical evidence to expose how unfair, abusive and potentially lethal immigration detention conditions are and ....more

The funding is towards research and policy work. This work is key in using its casework medical evidence to expose how unfair, abusive and potentially lethal immigration detention conditions are and to secure policy improvements to help those in need to get released and secure their immigration status.

£10,000 towards core costs. Medical Justice supports refugees and asylum seekers who have been detained with their medical needs, providing them with advice and assessments which can be used in ....more

£10,000 towards core costs. Medical Justice supports refugees and asylum seekers who have been detained with their medical needs, providing them with advice and assessments which can be used in support of their asylum claim.

Medical justice is a charity that offers medical help to those held in immigration detention in the UK. This is a one year unrestricted grant towards their work

MJNL supports people in immigration detention with medical assessments and wider casework support, assisting them to have access to appropriate healthcare, legal support and accommodation post ....more

MJNL supports people in immigration detention with medical assessments and wider casework support, assisting them to have access to appropriate healthcare, legal support and accommodation post release. Funding is requested towards a caseworker salary

Many people who come to the UK to claim asylum are desperate and traumatised, having survived war, torture, or rape in their own country. Some have serious medical problems and mental health issues. ....more

Many people who come to the UK to claim asylum are desperate and traumatised, having survived war, torture, or rape in their own country. Some have serious medical problems and mental health issues. Through this project, Medical Justice will train and support volunteer doctors and interpreters to enter Immigration Removal Centres, such as Yarl's Wood in Bedfordshire, to support those who have suffered torture in their own countries and document their scars. This may strengthen their claim for asylum which will lead them to live a life free from harm, or help secure release for those who are ill and not receiving the healthcare they require.

Towards core costs of an organisation that exposes medical neglect in immigration detention centres and assists torture survivors and other detainees to challenge institutional injustice.

£10,000 towards core costs

£10,000 towards core costs