120 Child Refugees Missing In UK

1. The Number of Child Refugees Missing In UK Rises to 120 Children. 2. To outline the negligence of the UK government towards refugees, and to discuss the missing child refugees and how the issue can be solved. 3. The children are among hundreds of displaced people who continue to live in terrible conditions near the border in Calais and Dunkirk, in situations that the UN recently described as an “inhumane.” And so they get to the UK, and in many cases go missing. The NSPCC’s Child Trafficking Advice Centre (CTAC) has been working with the Refugee Youth Service (RYS), a Calais-based charity, to locate the missing children in the UK. It has so far located 68 of them but 128 remain missing. Children as young as nine have been taken into the UK without their parents’ knowledge and have disappeared from refugee camps. 4. The NSPCC, has called on the UK needs to take additional steps with France to address the problem. They say countries have a legal duty to protect child victims, and insist that those protections must remain after Brexit. Because there are so few safe and legal routes for child refugees, they end up in great danger, seeking ways to enter the United Kingdom from France, often risking everything for the prospect of a better life in another country. May, who oversaw immigration policy in the Home Office for six years, has doubled down on the Conservative pledge to cut net migration to the tens of thousands. “We do want to bring net migration down to sustainable levels. We believe that is the tens of thousands,” the prime minister told reporters on Monday. When we leave the European Union we will have the opportunity to make sure we have control of our borders – leaving the EU means we won’t have free movement as it has been in the past,” she added.