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<p>In accordance with the contract all accommodation providers are required to develop
close and co-operative relationships with local authorities and maintain effective
on-going consultation and liaison arrangements with them.</p><p>In practice providers
work closely with the Home Office and regional Strategic Migration Partnerships to
seek the views of local authorities on proposed addresses for asylum accommodation
within dispersal areas on a range of issues including the capacity of local health,
education and other support services; the concentration of service users and risk
of social tensions. How the consultation is undertaken will be agreed with each local
authority with the support of the Strategic Migration Partnerships.</p>
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