Response to the Mayor's Refugee Integration Strategy

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The Committee met with representatives of the GLA’s Policy and Partnerships Directorate in October 2007 to discuss the consultation draft of the Mayor’s Refugee Integration Strategy. The Mayor is taking strategic leadership of refugee integration work for London and the strategy aims to tackle the social exclusion faced by refugees and to move towards equality of opportunity for refugees in London.

The Committee’s response to the consultation on the strategy recommends that: the strategy team engages with PCTs and other NHS Trusts as soon as possible to secure their support for the strategy. The strategy includes proposals for improving refugee and asylum seeker women’s knowledge of and access to antenatal and other maternity services the strategy emphasises the importance of developing a comprehensive, community based TB screening in London for refugees and asylum seekers a survey is conducted of London’s refugees and asylum seekers as soon as possible to provide baseline information to help monitor and evaluate the strategy.