Communities and Local Government Committee - Tenth Report

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Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 30 June 2008.

Contents

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Terms of Reference

Summary

1  Introduction

Community Cohesion and Migration

Our inquiry

Defining terms

2  Effect of migration on community cohesion

Numbers of migrants

Tensions between migrant and settled communities

Practical concerns about migration

The national picture

3  Pressures on local public services

Pressures on local authority services

Schools

Social housing

Other local service pressures

4  Responding to migration locally

Local political leadership

Myth-busting

Integrating migrants and the local community

Promoting contact

Supporting the whole community

Local authority performance

5  Responding to migration nationally

National roles and responsibilities

Too many cooks?

The national policy framework

The role of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC)

Government performance—room for improvement

Co-ordination across Whitehall

Best practice

English language provision

Integrating short-term economic migrants

6  Government funding

Funding local public service pressures

The need for additional funding

7  Conclusion

Conclusions and recommendations

Annex: Notes from the Committee's visits

Visit to Peterborough: 29 January 2008

Visit to Burnley: 3 March 2008

Visit to Barking and Dagenham: 1 April 2008

Formal Minutes

Witnesses

List of written evidence

List of unprinted evidence

List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament

List of Oral and Written Evidence

Wednesday 27 February 2008

Tuesday 4 March 2008

Tuesday 1 April 2008

Tuesday 22 April 2008

Written Evidence

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Prepared 16 July 2008