Following Lord Roberts’ recent question to the Government about ‘what plans they have to speed up the reuniting of refugee children in the camps of Calais and Dunkirk with their families in the United Kingdom’, the Archbishop of Canterbury commented:‘The question has been extremely specifically put, about children who have families in this country; this is not about all unaccompanied children.’ He also said, ‘We are still having continual reports of delays for really quite young children who are not being brought across. Does the Minister not agree that where children - particularly young ones - have families in this country, there is no reason why they should not be brought across within the day?’
Reuniting refugee children with families
Written by David Fletcher 16 Sep 2016Additional Info
- Pray: for governments to implement systems quickly to free unaccompanied children from France. (Dt.24:17a)
- More: churchinparliament.org/2016/09/06/archbishop-asks-government-to-speed-up-process-of-bringing-lone-children-with-families-in-uk-across-from-calais-jungle-camp/