Useful links

The links below are to organisations providing services to asylum seekers or to other information that might be useful.

An organisation's presence in the list does not endorse any of the information, products or views published on their website. Glasgow City Council is not responsible for the content of external web sites.

This list is not exhaustive.  Contact the Immigration & Emergency Services team if you would like to have an organisation added.

Advice

• Citizens Advice Bureau
• Ethnic Enable helps black and minority ethnic disabled people and their carers
• Ethnic Minorities Law Centre
• Ethnic Minority Advocacy Service
• Immigration Advisory Service
• Scottish Refugee Council

Directories of local organisations whose work relates to asylum issues

• Information centre about asylum and refugees in the UK
• Infobase (Glasgow Council for the Voluntary Sector)
• Glasgow Refugee/Asylum Seeker Information Project (West of Scotland Racial Equality Council)

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Education and training

• Careers Scotland
• Centre for Education for Racial Equality in Scotland
• Diverse routes into higher education in Scotland
• Ethnic Minority Enterprise Centre
• The Bridges Programme
• PATH Scotland
• YWCA

Faith

• Scottish Interfaith Council

Family tracing service

• British Red Cross

Government

• UK Border Agency
• COSLA Strategic Migration Partnership
• Forced Marriage Unit - Foreign & Commonwealth Office

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Police

• Strathclyde Police

Health

• Asylum Health Coordinator
• NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde Equalities in Health
• Medical foundation for the care of victims of torture
• Compass - Asylum Seekers & Refugees Mental Health liaison
• Health Rights Information Scotland

Housing

• Glasgow Housing Options Guide
• National Accommodation Standards
• Positive Action in Housing

Interpreting

• Glasgow Translation & Interpreting Service

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Trafficking 

• Glasgow Child Protection Committee - Inter-Agency Guidance for Child Trafficking 
• The Trafficking Awareness Raising Alliance (TARA) Project - phone 0141 276 7724
  TARA Newsletters
• Migrant Helpline

Voluntary return

• International Organization for Migration

Volunteering

• Glasgow Council for the Voluntary Sector

Women

• Amina Muslim Women's Resource Centre
• Glasgow Violence Against Women Partnership
• Glasgow Women's Aid
• Hemat Gryffe
• Rape Crisis Centre

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