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<p>The Controlling Migration Fund opened in November 2016 with the aim of easing pressures
on local services linked to recent migration and providing targeted immigration enforcement
activity.</p><p>Until 2020 the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
(MHCLG) has contributed £100 million of funding, with the Home Office contributing
£40 million worth of enforcement activity.</p><p>To date the MHCLG element of the
fund has approved £73.6 million for projects covering tackling rogue landlords; building
cohesion and integration within communities; supporting learning of English language;
building capacity to support unaccompanied asylum seeking children; establishing Local
Authority Asylum Support Liaison Officers to help new refugees transition from government-funded
support into mainstream society and a Modern Day Slavery pilot in 6 local authorities
to support the transition process of victims leaving safe houses.</p><p>The deadline
for applications to the final round of the MHCLG element of the programme was 1 October
last year. We received 149 bids from local authorities for the remaining £26.4 million
of available funding. We hope to announce our decisions on these applications soon.</p>
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