Advisory Board on Naturalisation and Integration (ABNI) final report

ABNI was set up as an Advisory Non-Departmental Public Body (ANDPB) in November 2004. It's role over these past four years has been to provide independent advice to the Government on its citizenship and integration programmes, and to advise and report on the processes of assessment of the understanding of language and civic structures, as required by the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002. Board members were appointed in November 2004 for two years, and these terms of office were extended for a further two years to enable the board to advise the Home Office on the extension of the Life in the UK arrangements to people seeking settlement. ABNI believes that there is a role for a successor body to: - Co-ordinate the approach to citizenship across the departments and agencies involved - Monitor the educational support required for citizenship - Undertake future revision of citizenship materials (including the Handbook and Life in the UK Test) - Promote the benefits and take-up of citizenship - Provide advice once the active citizenship elements of earned citizenship are in place - Evaluate the effectiveness of the current and future routes to citizenship. It believes that this would be an opportunity to strengthen coordination across Government on citizenship and provide an opportunity to bring in new expertise. http://www.abni.org.uk/publications/index.html To view the final report.

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