Immigrant volunteering proposals split charities

By Nathalie Thomas, Third Sector, 7 March 2007

A leading immigration body is urging charities that use volunteers to boycott Gordon Brown's plans to oblige immigrants to do community service before they are granted UK citizenship.

The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants hopes charities can scupper Brown's intentions, revealed in a speech on Britishness last week, by refusing to take volunteers. It would like to see a repetition of the united front the sector put up against the 2005 Immigration and Asylum Regulations, which...

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