Asylum Seekers and Refugees

Over the past few months I have had the pleasure of working with people from our Ethnic communities. I'm normally not very political but I think the Government has got the policy wrong on a number of things with regqrd to how people seeking Asylum and come as refugee's are treated when the UK status has been sorted out and that they then have the right to remain and the right to work. Let me be clear, I have no issue in people claiming Asylum or coming here as refugee's and if in the infinate wisdom of our Government, they are granted such right to work, then they should be given every assistance in finding work and this is where my problem lies. As I have mentioned it has been an absolute pleasure in working on the project that I have for the last few months (and long may it continue) but it boils my piss at the complete lack of support offered in respect of what they can bring to our economy in relation to the skills they bring. Everyone who comes into this country and is given the right to work should have their skills seriously looked. I have worked with one young woman who is a qualified teacher in her own county and her teaching degree translates exactly to the English versions, she has the right amount of teaching experience, which means she can apply directly for Qualified teacher status (QTS) and would then be able to work as a teacher in Schools. Her English is realy good and she would have no issue in gaining employment as a teacher. So why wasnt this done when she first came here? Why has she been put on Universal Credit for the months she has been here, instead of sorting this out when she arrived so that she could start earning and therfore putting back into the system. In years past I have worked with fully qualified and expereinced Doctors, Midwives, Accountants and yet all the job centre seem to think is that they are only good for working in a warehouse or as a cleaner, when they can bring so much more if the effort was put into them when they arrive. Now, I know many job centre advisors and I have worked on enough employability programmes to know the pressures that are placed on staff to get job outcomes, but come, lets get them jobs they want and can do already. I know that some of the professions need to be brought up to the British standards, such as the doctor I mentioned who only needed one more year at a British University to be brought up to standard, but ends up on JSA or Universal Credit for five, six years which costs a hell of a lot more than a year at University would! I dont care which political party is in power, they are, in my view, in it for themselves, but these are the policy makers and they need to get their act together!