Inspection Report Published: An inspection of the EU Settlement Scheme (April 2019 to August 2019)
This is the Chief Inspector's second report on the EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS). 皇冠体育app report makes nine recommendations.
Publishing the report, David Bolt said:
My second report on the EU Settlement Scheme was sent to the Home Secretary on 30 September 2019. While the data for applications, outcomes and the efficiency of the Home Office鈥檚 processes are now historic, I believe that the bulk of my findings and recommendations remain current.
皇冠体育app Home Office has accepted or partially accepted eight of my nine recommendations. Most of the recommendations were aimed at improving the way the Scheme operates for vulnerable and hard-to-reach individuals, and applicants who are finding the process difficult. Given the Home Office鈥檚 considerable efforts to date to make the EUSS a success, I imagined that I would be pushing at an open door. Some of the responses are less positive and constructive than I had hoped.
Ahead of the creation of a new Independent Monitoring Authority (IMA), in line with my statutory remit, I will continue to monitor and report on how the EUSS is working and make recommendations to the Home Secretary regarding what requires improvement.
While ICIBI鈥檚 detailed inspection process and reporting arrangements cannot keep pace with the roll out of the Scheme, I hope that any future reports are published more quickly, since it is in everyone鈥檚 interests that the EUSS is, and is seen to be, subject to effective independent appraisal.