RedAlert Support

What we do! 4

• What is the RedAlert core service?
• Telephone and online support / advice
• What geographical area do you cover?
• Volunteer & job vacancies at Red Alert

RedAlert status / opportunities 4

• What is the legal status of RedAlert?
• Services Menu (What we do, or not do)
• Is RedAlert Funded?
• How do I volunteer with Red Alert?

Detained in public 2

• Stop and Search: Know Your Rights
• Your rights when subject to a stop and search

Detained in police station 2

• Being arrested: your rights
• Netpol : What is a bust card?

Detainees family / friends 1

• INQUEST Family Skills Toolkit

Police & Crime Commissioner 1

• What is the Police & Crime Commissioner?

Know your rights 6

• Stop and Search: Know Your Rights
• Arrest Bust Card
• Netpol | Network for Police Monitoring
• Green & Black Cross
• Identifying police ranks

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Policing and health initiatives 3

• StopWatch
• Report Policing Incidents
• Y-Stop stop and search app

Support for prisoners 9

• Howard League for Penal Reform
• Prisoners Advice Service
• Prison Reform Trust
• Innocence Network UK
• Detention Advice Service

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Prisoners family / friends 5

• Action for Families of Prisoners
• Counselling Directory
• Bringing Hope
• INQUEST Family Skills Toolkit
• PrisonPhone

Know your rights 3

• Freedom from Torture
• Detention under the Mental Health Act
• Making a complaint to The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman

Prison Visiting / pen pals / education 1

• Do you have a family member in prison?

Users on a section 3

• Compulsory admission to hospital: part 2 of the Act
• Mental Health Act 1983
• Review of Sections 135 and 136 of the Mental Health Act

Users in the community 7

• POhWER: advocacy & support
• Mind - Mental Health Charity
• Rethink - Mental Illness
• Aspects Care
• COPE Mental Health Foundation

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Users in police custody 3

• Section 136 of The Mental Health Act 1983
• Compulsory admission to hospital: part 2 of the Act
• Detention under the Mental Health Act

Users family / friends 3

• Counselling Directory
• INQUEST Family Skills Toolkit
• A Father's Child Services

Detained in public 1

• Your rights when subject to a stop and search

Know your rights 2

• Stop and Search: Know Your Rights
• Y-Stop stop and search app

Support for detainees 14

• Howard League for Penal Reform
• Asylum Welcome
• Prison Reform Trust
• RAPAR
• AVID, The Association of Visitors to Immigration Detainees

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Detainees family / friends 9

• Counselling Directory
• ASIRT Asylum Support and Immigration
• Hope Projects
• EIN Electronic Immigration Network
• Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants

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Know your rights 4

• Netpol : How to spot an immigration raid
• Y-Stop stop and search app
• INQUEST Family Skills Toolkit
• Making a complaint to The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman

Refugee and asylum advisory 9

• Birmingham Churches Together - Restore
• BIRCH Birmingham Community Hosting Network
• Asylum Aid
• European Council on Refugees and Exiles
• European Network on Statelessness

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All categories / civil law 7

• INQUEST Lawyers Group
• NETPOL Solicitors Guide (General)
• BMV Solicitors
• Deighton Pierce Glynn Solicitors
• Hickman & Rose Solicitors

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Prison & detention 3

• INQUEST Lawyers Group
• NETPOL Solicitors Guide (Prison)
• Irwin Mitchell Solicitors

Police & detention 2

• INQUEST Lawyers Group
• NETPOL Solicitors Guide (Civil)

Refugee / asylum & detention 2

• INQUEST Lawyers Group
• Bhatt Murphy & Co Solicitors

Representation / Injury / medical compensation 2

• Irwin Mitchell Legal Services / Solicitors
• Solicitors – Free Help & Funding

Inquest proceedings 3

• INQUEST Lawyers Group
• Deighton Pierce Glynn Solicitors
• Hickman & Rose Solicitors

Charitable organisations 29

• INQUEST
• POhWER: advocacy & support
• The Refugee Council
• Mind - Mental Health Charity
• Rethink - Mental Illness

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Campaigning groups 14

• 4WardEver UK
• United Families & Friends Campaign
• Detention Action
• BID, Bail for Immigration Detainees
• Freedom from Torture

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Counselling & Therapy services 8

• Counselling Directory
• Cruse Bereavement Care - National
• Open Door Youth Counselling Service
• Pattigift Therapy - African centred therapy
• Birmingham Healthy Minds

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Statutory & regulatory agencies 8

• Independent Advisory Panel (IAP) on Deaths in Custody
• BACP - British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy
• Immigration Law Practitioners' Association
• Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants
• AVID, The Association of Visitors to Immigration Detainees

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Children, Young People & Families 11

• The Children's Society
• Rape and Sexual Violence Project
• United Families & Friends Campaign
• Refugee Action
• End Violence Against Women Coalition

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Wellbeing Initiatives 7

• Common Unity
• Entraide
• WAITS Action
• Sandwell African-Caribbean Mental Health Foundation
• COPE Mental Health Foundation

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General guidance / manuals 11

• When is CCTV covered by the Data Protection Act?
• INQUEST Family Skills Toolkit
• Making a complaint to The IPCC
• Legal / casework help
• The Samaritans

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Stop & search 3

• Stop and Search: Know Your Rights
• Your rights when subject to a stop and search
• Y-Stop stop and search app

Police arrests, rights & filming 8

• Can I legally film the police? (Netpol)
• Metropolitan Police : Photography advice
• Netpol : What is a bust card?
• Policing the Police: Overview and update on statutory framework
• Identifying police ranks

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Legal support & legal aid 5

• Inside Time - Solicitor Search
• NETPOL Solicitor Guide
• INQUEST Lawyers Group
• AVMA - Action against medical accidents
• EIN Electronic Immigration Network

Emergency & Help Lines 5

• Who to contact if you need urgent support
• For non-emergency situations
• Mental health services
• How to get emotional support
• Mental Health A-Z

Statistics & Research 6

• Deaths in Immigration Detention 1989 - 2014
• IPCC Records
• INQUEST Statistics
• The IAP - Analysis of all recorded deaths
• 4WardEver Research & Reports Archive

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