Britain To Take In 3000 Child Refugees

After months of calls to help the youngest and most vulnerable migrants, UK is to take in up to 3,000 more child refugees.

16:49 25 April 2016

On Thursday, the UK Government has hailed the programme, which will come on top of a previous pledge to welcome 20,000 Syrians to the country.

 

A spokesperson from the Home Office said that the new scheme would take in at risk children from North Africa and the Middle East. Several hundreds of children are scheduled to be resettled next year, with the upper threshold of 3,000 due to be reached by 2020.

 

A spokesperson for the Home Office, said: “On the UNHCR’s recommendation, the scheme will not solely target unaccompanied children, but will also extend to vulnerable ‘children at risk’, such as those threatened with child labour, child marriage and other forms of abuse or exploitation.”