Migration Impact Fund

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Migration Impact Fund

• Alex Bouras
• LAA Places Team

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Background

• February 2008 Green Paper The Path to
  Citizenship
• Simplification of Immigration Laws and new
  approach to citizenship/residence. Migration
  Impact Fund is proposed.
• June 2008 Managing the impacts of migration a
  cross-government approach
• Commitment to helping communities maximise the
  benefits migration brings to the UK while
  mitigating the local impacts.
• March 2009 Managing the impacts of migration
  Improvements and innovations
• Update on progress and what Government intends to
  do as patterns of migration change.

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Immigration Trends

• 2004 to 2007
• UK saw a sharp rise in immigration from Eastern
  Europe, largely from countries that joined the EU
  in 2004.
• UK continued to have steady inflows of migrants
  from outside the EEA and high levels of
  emigration from the UK to Europe/worldwide.
• 2008 onwards
• Evidence suggests that migration to the UK has
  slowed through 2008 and is likely to fall further
  during the economic downturn.

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What is Government Doing?

• Migration Impacts Fund.
• Regional strategic migration partnerships
• Exceptional Circumstances Grant for schools
  experiencing a rapid growth in pupil numbers.
• Providing funding to Homeless Link to co-ordinate
  action to reduce rough sleeping among recent EU
  migrants.
• 50 million over the next 3 years to support
  community cohesion.
• Piloting Specialist Cohesion Teams.
• Migration Excellence Programme (now concluded).
• Developing policy on English for Speakers of
  Other Languages - A new approach is being rolled
  out in Sept 2009 (details tbc).
• New local immigration teams will be rolled out
  across the country by December 2011.
• And much more

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Migration Impacts Fund Purpose

• Transitional Impacts of Migration
• No activities are ruled out provided they are
  they are directly targeted at managing pressures
  on public services relating to transitional
  impacts of legal migration, to the benefit of the
  settled community.
• Proposals should be supported by evidence of need
  and the impact that the funded work will have.

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Migration Impacts Fund Purpose (cont.)

• All bids should have the endorsement of the LSP.
• Sub-regional / multi-borough bids are encouraged.
• Minimum grant threshold of 10,000 will apply.

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Who Can Bid?

• All local service providers including
• the Police
• Local Authorities
• Primary Care Trusts
• 3rd Sector organisations

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Funding Available

• Total fund size for UK 35,000,000 (09/10)
• Fund for England 29,322,000
• North-east 1,389,863
• North-west 3,606,606
• Yorkshire and The Humber 2,929,268
• East Midlands 3,034,827
• West Midlands 2,873,556
• East 3,568,487
• London 5,653,282
• South-east 3,269,403
• South-west 2,996,708

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Funding Available (cont.)

• Government committed to providing a similar
  amount in 2010/11.
• Review in autumn of migrant fees before making a
  final decision of the amount of funding for
  2010/11.
• No fixed breakdown of funding per borough but,
  see migration data.
• Grant is not ringfenced.

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Operating Period

• Single application round.
• Bidders can apply for funding for up to two years
  - for 2009/10 and 2010/11.
• Offers of funding will only be guaranteed until
  31 March 2010.
• Offers for continued funding after this date will
  be provisional, subject to good progress with
  delivering the project being demonstrated, and
  the funding being made generally available.
• Only fund for more than one year if the nature of
  the project clearly requires this continuity.

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Example Activities

• Examples of the types of activities that could be
  funded are
• ESOL Provision
• Information, Advice and Guidance Services
• Voice and Representation
• Crime and Drugs including Disproportionality,
  Increasing support via safeguarding procedures,
  Gangs, Victimisation and alcohol and drugs
  issues, Prostitution and trafficking and PREVENT.
• Rough Sleeping - A10 nationals account for 20-25
  of all rough sleeping in London (concentrated in
  City and Westminster and other inner London
  boroughs).

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Example Activities (cont.)

• Private Rented Sector - Overcrowding /awareness
  of Landlords duties.
• Health and Social Care access to health and
  social care services, improving services and
  improving health and wellbeing (such as TB, HIV
  and mental health).
• Children's Service Areas Children Missing
  Education/Not receiving a suitable education ,
  Private fostering , Identifying missing children,
  Access to education post 16 and Safeguarding

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Applications

• Limit the application (including any
  supplementary information provided) to no more
  than five pages.
• Bids containing multiple projects can submit an
  additional two pages for each additional project
  (i.e. a maximum of seven pages for a two-project
  bid).

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Bid Assessment

• Appraisal Panel will consider whether the bids
• Directly target pressures on public services
  related to the transitional impacts of legal
  migration, to the benefit of the settled
  community.
• Target one or more priority themes for London
  this can be any type of work, so long as it is
  supported by evidence of need and clear benefit.
• Have the clear support from LSP and the buy-in of
  a number of agencies.
• Adopt a cross borough / sub-regional approach and
  fit with other projects in the area.
• Offer opportunities to learn and share innovative
  practice, and have a clear exit strategy.

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Submission of Bids

• Deadline (to GOL) is 5pm on Friday 1st May.
• Applicants should expect decisions by 15th June.

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Further Information

• All bidding documents will be available from the
  GOL website
• http//www.gos.gov.uk/gol/Local_govt/803011/?a424
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• Documents
• Bidding Guidance
• Data on levels of Migration, etc.
• QA will be updated as issues arise.
• Copies of the Governments Green Paper, etc.

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Going Forward

• 24 Feb 2009 - ONS announced a package of
  improvements for the key population statistics
  published in 2010.
• Includes more robust local distribution of
  international migration and better internal
  migration estimates.
• Inform the next three-year Local Government
  Finance Settlement.

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Any Questions?
Alex Bouras LAA Places Team Tel [phone]
3073 E-mail alex.bouras_at_gol.gsi.gov.uk