Author: Ci Research
Pages: 36
Year: 2005
Source: Welsh Assembly Government, SSIW, Cathays Park, CF10 3NQ
In December 2004, the Welsh Assembly Government issued their annual remit letter to the former National Council for Education and Training for Wales (ELWa) asking for continued commitment to the reform of post-16 learning across Wales. This was to ensure that all residents in Wales are equipped with the right skills to become active citizens and to be able to contribute effectively to the labour market. This paper is one in a series of Learning Insights into specific populations within Wales. The target groups for this Insight are asylum seekers and refugees in Wales. This group is extremely diverse, not only culturally and religiously, but also in terms of social class, gender and age. Immigration and asylum are topics that are currently of great interest both politically and in the British media. Since New Labour came to power in 1997 there have been 3 Acts of Parliament regarding immigration: the Asylum and Immigration Act (1999); the Nationality,Immigration and Asylum Act (2002); and the Asylum and Immigration Act (2004). In terms of this research the most important change took place in July 2002 when the Government withdrew the concession which allowed asylum seekers to apply for permissionto work, if they had been waiting for a decision on their asylum claim for six months or more.This has not only had consequences for employment of asylum seekers but also for accessing vocational training.
Learning Insight - Asylum Seekers & Refugees - July 2005 - [PDF - 204.69 Kb]
