Charities in Calais have said that more than 1,000 children remain in shipping containers in the demolished camp, with inadequate food and water supplies and no information provided about their future. Clearing the Calais refugee camp – in pictures Read moreVolunteers said the uncertainty was very distressing for the young people, who had been given temporary accommodation in the fenced-off container area of the site. “Very few adults seem to be inside the container camp to be responsible for this vast number of minors. Theresa May declined to make any further commitments on the number of child refugees Britain was planning to take, after receiving a call from Hollande urging Britain to consider its “moral duty”. So far this month the UK has taken about 274 child refugees.

Source: The Guardian October 31, 2016 11:49 UTC