Integrating our refugee and migrant communities
The Council provides support, advice, and guidance to migrant communities in the city to help them along their integration journey. In the past year the city has been pivotal in the UK’s response to both the Afghan and Ukrainian humanitarian crises, supporting people taking up the Hong Kong British National (Overseas) immigration route as well as continuing to respond to the UK Refugee Resettlement Scheme offering safe and equal routes to the most vulnerable refugees across the world.
Key activities in 2021-22 included:
• integration support including English for speakers of other languages;
• employment, education, and training;
• access to education;
• civic orientation - first city to undertake children’s citizenship ceremony;
• IT; digital literacy; co-ordination of local organisations working with newly arrived and migrant communities; response to policy and consultation; developing integration strategy for the city; dedicated support to women from newly arrived communities; support asylum seekers;
Migration support in numbers
