A New Model for National Refugee
Integration Services in England
Consultation Paper
The purpose of this consultation is to develop the content and contractual arrangements
for a standard set of services for the integration of refugees in England. To take
part in this consultation, please submit your response, by 18 December 006, to
refugeeintegrationconsultation@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk
or posted to:
National Refugee Integration Services Consultation
Social Policy Unit
6th Floor Apollo House
36 Wellesley Road
Croydon
CR9 3RR
You should also contact the address above should you require a copy of this consultation
paper in any other format, e.g. Braille, Large Font, or Audio. A summary of the responses
received will be published within 3 months of the closing date for this consultation, and will
be made available on our website.
If you have any queries on this please contact Harish Dutt on 00 8760 8489.
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1. The Home Office is considering plans
for a complete overhaul of the way in
which refugee integration services are
structured and funded in England1,
moving beyond the structures set out in
its existing strategy, Integration Matters.
Currently, most of the Home Office
refugee integration budget is spent on
core and strategic funding of nine major
voluntary sector organisations working
with refugees and on three funding
streams - the Refugee Challenge Fund,
the Refugee Community Development
Fund and the Purposeful Activities
for Asylum Seekers Fund - which are
run annually on a competitive basis.
These existing funding arrangements
have contributed considerably to the
innovation, diversity and good practice
present across the country, and we
are keen that this should not be lost.
However, the availability of services
is inconsistent depending on where
a refugee is living at the time of a
positive decision and to some extent on
their own knowledge of how to access
services.
. There are many definitions of integration
but for our purposes we mean the
process that takes place whe