Refugee integration: New Scots Core Group
Overview
The New Scots refugee integration strategy is built on partnership and collaboration, led by the Scottish Government, COSLA and the Scottish Refugee Council, and involves a wide range of partners across different sectors.
The New Scots Core Group brings together key stakeholders and is responsible for monitoring and reviewing progress against the overarching outcomes of New Scots during the strategy implementation period. It will ensure progress reports are published and also coordinates the work being done at the delivery level. The group generally meets four times a year.
Membership of this group includes the New Scots Core Group Advisers, who are a group of individuals with direct experience of seeking protection and rebuilding their lives in Scotland through various resettlement routes. These individuals reflect the diversity of refugee and asylum-seeking voices across Scotland. Their lived experiences, combined with community engagement activities, and their skills in advocacy and monitoring, allow them to represent and advocate for a cross-section of the New Scots communities. This brings more balanced community perspectives to the group.
The group is chaired by Professor Alison Phipps, UNESCO Chair on Refugee Integration through Education, Language, and Arts at the University of Glasgow.
Members
Chair:
- Professor Alison Phipps
Partners:
- COSLA, Migration, Population and Diversity Team
- Scottish Government, Asylum and Refugee Integration Unit
- Scottish Refugee Council
Wider membership:
- Bridges Programmes
- British Red Cross
- Glasgow Clyde College
- Mental Health Foundation
- Police Scotland
- Public Health Scotland
- Scottish Faiths Action for Refugees
- Scottish Local Authorities Economic Development (SLAED) People Group
- New Scots Core Group Advisers