Calais: Child Refugees

Baroness Sharples Excerpts

Tuesday 13th December 2016 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Williams of Trafford]

My Lords, if a child is in local authority care, they will be looked after as if they were one of our own. As I said, the cost of that local authority care will be met. Regarding the other funding the noble Baroness referred to, I cannot speak for further budgetary rounds, but it is certainly being committed to for the moment.

[Baroness Sharples (Con)]

Can my noble friend say whether all these children have family here, or are they looking to be adopted?

[Baroness Williams of Trafford]

Children who meet the criteria under the Dublin regulation will have family here. Those who have come here under Section 67 of the Immigration Act will not necessarily have family and so will be unaccompanied.