Refugees: Afghanistan

(asked on 4th January 2022) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with officials in the Department for Education on ensuring that refugees from Afghanistan with limited leave to remain can access schooling.


Answered by
Kevin Foster Portrait
Kevin Foster
This question was answered on 11th January 2022

All children and young people evacuated to the UK under the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP) and the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS) with limited leave, will have access to education.

As of 6 January 2022, all school aged children and young people evacuated during Operation Pitting, are now enrolled into schools. Those children who have joined us since then are either in school, or being placed in schools, as quickly as possible.

We are also taking the availability of school places in each local authority into account, as new families arrive and are settled into the country.

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