Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she plans to take in the next three months to support child refugees who arrived from Syria.

All unaccompanied asylum seeking and refugee children in the UK receive care and support from a local authority, regardless of nationality or how they arrived in the country.

On 1 November 2016, the Immigration Minister and the Minister for Vulnerable Children and Families announced that the Government would publish a safeguarding strategy for unaccompanied asylum seeking and refugee children. The detail of the strategy can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/safeguarding-unaccompanied-asylum-seeking-and-refugee-children

Children resettled under our Syrian Vulnerable Person’s Resettlement scheme or our Vulnerable Children’s Resettlement scheme are provided with education, housing, medical or social care as required.