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Recommendation
Seventh Report - Children in poverty: N…
Accepted in Part
We recommend that the Government undertakes research to establish if children in families subject to the NRPF condition are overrepresented in serious case reviews. We are pleased that the Department for Education is enthusiastic about improving the communication between organisations on children’s welfare, neglect, and abuse and ask that the …
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We recommend that the Government undertakes research to establish if children in families subject to the NRPF condition are overrepresented in serious case reviews. We are pleased that the Department for Education is enthusiastic about improving the communication between organisations on children’s welfare, neglect, and abuse and ask that the DfE report back to us within six months on the work it is doing to improve safeguarding for children, particularly those with parents with NRPF.
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Government response AI summary
The Department for Education will consider whether no recourse to public funds (NRPF) is an indicator of risk in serious child safeguarding cases via the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel, and will also consider updating the Serious Incidents Notification System by adding a NRPF indicator.
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Department for Work and Pensions
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Recommendation
Seventh Report - Children in poverty: N…
Accepted in Part
We recommend the Government ensures the Support for Migrant Victims Scheme is evaluated swiftly and consequential policy decisions are made quickly. The pilot must be fully rolled out or alternative measures put in place immediately to ensure that survivors of domestic abuse, including children, receive support when and where it …
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We recommend the Government ensures the Support for Migrant Victims Scheme is evaluated swiftly and consequential policy decisions are made quickly. The pilot must be fully rolled out or alternative measures put in place immediately to ensure that survivors of domestic abuse, including children, receive support when and where it is needed. We ask the Government to update us on whether or not the scheme will be permanently in place when the evaluation has been completed. The Government should also explain what support for survivors of domestic abuse with NRPF will be available between the end of the pilot in March and the introduction of any subsequent scheme.
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Government response AI summary
The government will provide £1.4 million in 2022–23 to continue to fund support for migrant victims of domestic abuse while vital lessons learned from the pilot inform future policy decisions, but the timeline for implementing policy recommendations is dependent on the details of those recommendations.
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Department for Work and Pensions
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Recommendation
Seventh Report - Children in poverty: N…
Accepted in Part
We recommend that people on the 5 year route to leave to remain are not moved onto the 10 year route following a successful application for a change of conditions, even if they are still accessing public funds when they apply for settlement. We further recommend that the Home Office …
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We recommend that people on the 5 year route to leave to remain are not moved onto the 10 year route following a successful application for a change of conditions, even if they are still accessing public funds when they apply for settlement. We further recommend that the Home Office urgently updates its website with guidance on this policy change.
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Government response AI summary
The Home Office has suspended the practice of moving an applicant that has received recourse to public funds following a change of conditions application off the five-year route to settlement at the point a decision is made, but the ability to stay on this route …
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Department for Work and Pensions