Emigration: Children

(asked on 15th January 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 20 December 2018 to Question 202774 on Child Sexual Abuse Independent Panel Inquiry, what future support his Department plans to provide to the Family Restoration Fund for former child migrants


Answered by
Jackie Doyle-Price Portrait
Jackie Doyle-Price
This question was answered on 21st January 2019

On 19 December the Government published its response to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse's Interim Report and its report on Child Migration Programmes. The response states that the Government will establish an ex-gratia payment scheme and will ensure that former child migrants receive a payment as soon as possible, in recognition of the fundamentally flawed nature of the historic child migration policy. Further details will be provided shortly.

The Government response also recognised that the Family Restoration Fund provides a valuable service and stated that the Government will continue the Fund until the end of the current scheme, by which time the Fund will have provided over £8 million to support reunions, over more than a decade. Beyond this future funding decisions will be a matter for the upcoming spending review.

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