Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to ensure that children who are asylum seekers remain in areas local to their schools.

Guidance can be found here: Asylum accommodation requests: caseworker guidanc https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/asylum-accommodation-requests-policye - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). The pressures on the asylum estate means accommodation must be on a ‘no choice basis’. However, children who are asylum seekers and in their final school or college year leading up to their GCSE, Scottish Highers, AS or A-level exams may remain accommodated in that particular area to allow them to complete exams, provided that they have been enrolled at that school for a significant part of the previous school year.