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This year is the 80th Anniversary of the Kindertransport, the scheme through which Britain welcomed 10,000 child refugees, over 2 years.

As part of this anniversary, Lord Alf Dubs, himself a Kindertransport child, is calling on Central Government to start a fully-funded scheme for 10,000 child refugees to be resettled in the UK over the next 10 years. If the UK were to take 1000 children a year spread across the UK, each local authority would support just 3 children a year.

Councils up and down the country have already begun to commit places for children for a new fully-funded scheme.

We think local authorities like Islington, who represent welcoming places, can show leadership on the issue and offer more than 3 places a year. Hammersmith and Fulham Council have offered 100 places for child refugees and Perth and Kinross Council in Scotland have offered 20 places for child refugees. We think in Islington we are a welcoming place, so we want to work with our Council to resettle 100 child refugees over 10 years, just 10 children every year.

I would like to quickly thank Islington council for the brilliant work done already in supporting refugees. Our council have shown leadership on Refugee resettlement by resettling 31 refugees (as far as I know) through the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme. Thank you for taking the decision to transform the lives of families and please continue this fantastic work.

This ePetition ran from 10/09/2018 to 20/09/2018 and has now finished.

54 people signed this ePetition.