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<p>The Home Office has been working 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 recently to develop and produce a specialist training
package.</p><p>The Asylum Learning and Development Team started to deliver the specialist
training package on religious claims on Monday 8 April 2019, which will be mandatory
for all asylum decision-makers.</p><p>The aim of this course is to ensure that where
religion or belief is raised in an asylum claim, decision makers appropriately consider
all the available evidence in accordance International, European & Domestic law
and Home Office policy, when interviewing asylum seekers and making decisions on their
claims.</p><p>In order to alleviate any concerns about the way in which vulnerable
claims are dealt with, a review has been commissioned to investigate the way claims
based on religious grounds and LGBT+ are assessed. The aim and approach of the Review
will be to ensure that empathy and religious literacy is considered by Decision Makers
when assessing these highly complex claims, acknowledging the impact of their decision
whilst ensuring appropriate rigour is applied as these routes can be open to fraudulent
claims.</p>
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