The Government's Commission on Integration and Cohesion final report highlights that issues about integration and cohesion are increasingly as relevant in more rural areas, with high influxes of migrant workers, as in other more urban areas.

Our response makes the case for closing the local funding gap in order to help local authorities and their partners to build on the good work they are doing in meeting the needs of all local people, both established communities and migrant workers and other incomers.