The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Social Integration has today welcomed the publication of the Government’s new Integrated Communities Strategy – but warned it is vital for integration to be seen as a two way street in the way the strategy is implemented. The Green Paper outlines five areas where the Government wants to focus…

Today the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Social Integration launches its inquiry into intergenerational connection. To mark the launch, the group is publishing a collection of essays, Ages Apart? Ties and Divides Across the Generations. The collection includes contributions from pollsters, policy thinkers and practitioners – capturing  the views and insights of experts on various…

A new report from The All Parliamentary Group on Social Integration chaired by Chuka Umunna MP argues that the toxic immigration debate is hindering integration and calls for urgent action to build a more cohesive society. The report concludes the cross party group’s inquiry into the integration of immigrants, and follows the interim report in January which…

The Challenge, who provides the Secretariat to the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Social Integration, has finished conducting research interviews for the APPG’s inquiry into integration and immigration. Over the past two months The Challenge has been talking to relevant experts to gain a better understanding of the existing English provision landscape in the…

The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Social Integration has received an excellent range of submissions from a wide range of stakeholders to its call for evidence which closed on 13 March 2017. Commenting on the submissions, the APPG Chair, Chuka Umunna MP, said: “We are very pleased to see so many organisations and individuals…

The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Social Integration launched Stage Two of its inquiry into immigration and integration with a public evidence session on Monday 27 February. APPG members reconvened to hear from Saira Grant (Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants), James Cupper (National Association for Teaching English and other Community Languages to…

The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Social Integration visited a sheltered housing unit in Dagenham to explore how local residents of this highly diverse borough felt about immigration and integration. The APPG Chair, Chuka Umunna MP, and the local MP and APPG Officer, Jon Cruddas MP, met with local residents to talk about the…

The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Social Integration is pleased to announce a call for evidence for Stage Two of its inquiry into immigration and integration. Stage One of the inquiry set out six guiding principles which the APPG believes should inform the design of a post-Brexit immigration system and development of a government strategy for…

The All Party Parliamentary Group on Social Integration today launches its first report into how the UK’s immigration system could more effectively promote integration. The cross party group of MPs and peers calls for: The Government to look at introducing a regionally-led immigration system with region-specific visas based on the Canadian model; Immigrants to be…

Chuka Umunna MP, Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Social Integration, commenting on The Casey Review, said: “The fact people live parallel lives in modern Britain has been swept under the carpet for far too long and deemed too difficult to deal with, which has left a vacuum for extremists and peddlers of…