Scotland Welcomes Refugees

Description

The keynote address was delivered by the Cabinet Secretary for Communities, Social Security and Equalities, Angela Constance MSP, who set out that the conference discussion would be important to “help us to shape the best support we can for the refugees and asylum seekers who are here and for those yet to come.” Sharing practice presentations covering the six themes of New Scots were heard:
 Housing – Accommodating Syrian refugees in North Lanarkshire
 Education – Glasgow ESOL Access Project
 Employment – Women into Sustainable Employment ‘WiSE’ project
 Health – Mental Health Foundation – the Right to Health
 Asylum – Legal Services Agency – Women and Children’s services
 Community – The Amal Project – Aberdeenshire

These presentations highlighted that projects across Scotland are working for the benefit of refugees and the range of partners who are involved. This is a reflection of the intention of the New Scots strategy, as a framework to help collaborative working to support refugees. The main purpose of the conference was to gather refugees, people who provide public services or facilities and people who work to support refugees to share learning from the work which has already taken place and to consider what could be improved for refugees and how that could be done.

Period	2 Nov 2016
Event type	Conference
Location	Glasgow, United KingdomShow on map
Degree of Recognition	National