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To: UK AND SCOTTISH GOVERNMENTS
PROTECT LONE CHILDREN FROM CALAIS CAMP: ALLOW THEM INTO SCOTLAND AND UK
Allow Scotland and rest of UK to give refuge to unaccompanied refugee children from Calais camp.
Why is this important?
1500 children were transferred yesterday, Wednesday 2nd November, from the container camp in Calais to processing centres and temporary accommodation in France
Besides the children with family to join in UK, there are many hundreds of unaccompanied children seeking asylum. Surely we can offer sanctuary to a large proportion of these children in Scotland and give them the care and attention they need?
The risk of unsupervised children leaving temporary centres in France and setting out alone or in small groups to look for an illegal route to UK is HUGE.
It has been reported that many children went missing during last week's evacuation of the Calais Camp, as did 129 children during partial evacuation of the camp in February this year.
It will be shameful for us a a nation if we cannot resolve this situation, by harnessing the goodwill of the British public in welcoming these children, and encouraging Local Authorities to accommodate them.
How it will be delivered
DELIVER THEM IN PERSON
