This is the list of documents available for the submission By Councillor Jennifer Layden:- "Council welcomes the Scottish Government's refreshed New Scots integration strategy and reiterates its commitment to refugees whether resettled, recognised or claimants. Council encourages the UK Government to develop a similar strategy and to strive to meet the integration needs of newcomers and the communities they live in. Council is concerned that UK policy continues to operate at best a two tier system, and that impact of this is not only discriminatory but to the detriment of inclusion and integration. Council is concerned that the UK Government has learned little from the Syrian Resettlement Programme and is damaging the goodwill of UK local authorities with its asylum dispersal proposals. Council notes that since 2012 no UK local authority has held a contract for asylum seeker accommodation and this is unlikely to change despite communities, campaign groups and Parliamentary concerns being expressed. New contracts must recognise the end to end cost of dispersal including the impact of destitution and commit to working more closely with local authorities to mitigate destitution and improve housing. Council will support active involvement and engagement in the UK Government's current Asylum Accommodation and Support Services Contract tendering process.".

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