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THIRD REPORT FROM

17. The Home Office and Department of the Environment should examine with the refugee agencies and local authorities what sorts of service the agencies could provide for authorities with few Vietnamese and how such services should be paid for, and the Department of the Environment should circularise local authorities with the conclusions. (Para 76).

18. The Home Office should establish a working group to formulate its long- term policy towards the more scattered Vietnamese, and to assess the relative cost- effectiveness of attempting to provide services to many scattered groups as opposed to assisting the rehousing of those who would prefer to move to the cities. (Para 77).

19. The scale of the refugee agencies' Vietnamese programme should be increased, and its funding should be continued for as long as necessary to achieve its objectives. (Para 78).

20. The Home Office and Department of the Environment should promote the provision of community centres or access to community facilities shared with other groups in the main centres of Vietnamese population. (Para 80).

21. The DHSS should give financial support to Ockenden Venture's work in relation to Vietnamese mental health, including further research and training of specialist personnel, and should give serious consideration to the establishment of a central facility for severe cases, and an official or officials within the Department should be designated as having a responsibility for research and planning in respect of Vietnamese mental health. (Para 86).

PART 3: ASYLUM PROCEDURE

22. The Home Office should decide in principle to extend the right of appeal to all asylum applicants, and, for types of case where the applicant currently lacks a right of appeal exercisable within the UK, to establish procedures by which leave to remain is withheld in obviously bogus cases and by which such refusals of leave can be rapidly reviewed if appealed against; and should set up a working party to determine how such procedures would operate. (Para 105).

23. Whenever possible, asylum applicants should be interviewed at Lunar House or by Lunar House staff, and Immigration Officers should conduct asylum interviews only if they have been trained specifically for that purpose. (Para 106).

24. Asylum interviews should be recorded either on tape or as a full written record signed by the applicant. (Para 108).

25. In normal circumstances, asylum seekers at ports of entry who would otherwise be detained should be granted temporary admission to a refugee hostel or other suitable and accepted accommodation. (Para 109).

26. The Home Office should ensure that all unsuccessful asylum applicants have access, and are aware that they have access, to oral, off-the-record, reasons for refusal. (Para 110).