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<p>After reports indicated that an asylum decision included quotations from religious
texts and was not drafted in accordance with Home Office policy guidance, Asylum Operations
conducted an investigation into this matter. A small number of religious conversion
cases were sampled, and no further cases were identified during this sampling exercise.</p><p>All
such decisions are currently subject to further scrutiny, pending the roll out of
additional specialist training, which has been developed in collaboration with the
All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for International Freedom of Religion or Belief.</p><p>The
Asylum Learning and Development Team started to deliver the specialist training package
on religious claims on Monday 8 April, which will be mandatory for all asylum decision-makers.</p>
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