Expert report proposes new measures.
The Expert Advisory Group on Migration and Population report has set out 10 recommendations to encourage and support families moving to Scotland. The proposals include:
- Enabling family migration to remote and rural areas through bespoke schemes, drawing on good practice from Canada
- Removing the minimum income requirement
- Providing better information for family members pre-arrival, so that they can start identifying potential employment, childcare or schools and accommodation
- Supporting family members to find suitable work
- Helping access to childcare, through providing better information, support networks, and ensuring migrant families access early Education and Childhood support
- Establishing advice hubs, providing a range of services and support to migrants, including tailored integration plans
- Promoting community and migrant peer networks, building on good practice with English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) networks
- Helping find suitable accommodation
- Reducing the costs of applying for Indefinite Leave to Remain and citizenship
- Joining up good practice, in order to link up and expand successful initiatives
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The independent Expert Advisory Group on Migration and Population was established in October 2018.
The purpose is to provide independent expert analysis and advice to Scottish Government ministers on migration and population.