Eight London councils have written to the home secretary, Amber Rudd, calling on the Home Office to provide more financial and casework support to ensure they can properly care for unaccompanied refugee children arriving from France. The letter calls on the government to do more to support refugee children in Calais and in the UK. The councils call on Rudd to provide more financial help so they can better plan support for refugee children over the next few years, pointing out that they “have had their budgets cut by over two-thirds since 2010”. The letter has been written at a time when charities based at Calais continue to raise concerns about the welfare of the children still stranded in the partly demolished refugee camp. Save the Children said it was extremely concerned about the welfare of children in Calais who have not yet been registered.

Source: The Guardian October 27, 2016 19:15 UTC