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<p>The Home Office have worked closely with the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG)
for International Freedom of Religion or Belief and the Asylum Advocacy Group (AAG)
for many years, to help improve their approach to religious based claims and have
recently worked with them to develop and produce a specialist training package.</p><p>The
aim of this course is to ensure that where religion or belief is raised in an asylum
claim, asylum decision makers appropriately consider all the available evidence in
accordance with International, European & Domestic law and Home Office Asylum
Policy, when interviewing asylum applicants and making decisions on their claims.</p><p>The
Asylum Learning and Development Team (AL&D) also delivers the Foundation Training
Programme (FTP) to all new asylum decision makers. This intensive five-week course
provides staff with training on all aspects of asylum decision making, including religious-based
claims, religious conversion and has been endorsed by the UNHCR. During the course,
trainees consider case studies involving religion or belief-based persecution. This
course is followed by a period of mentoring.</p>
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