01 March 2007

Gordon Brown and Migrant Volunteering

The government is cutting back on who is eligible for free ESOL provision, and overall, the LSC is cutting back on ESOL funding.

On top of this, Gordon Brown is now floating the idea that migrants should carry out mandatory community work that would "introduce them to the people they will be living alongside" -- Brown is also considering whether citizenship should be granted on a trial basis, to be revoked if people did not keep their part of the contract.

Habib Rahman, of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI), said: "Compulsory community service is usually imposed as a non-custodial penalty for a criminal offence. We are therefore extremely concerned that it is now being proposed as a condition of citizenship."

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