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Calais children: Children without UK links among 70 new arrivals | Calais children: Children without UK links among 70 new arrivals |
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The first group of unaccompanied children without family ties to the UK has arrived in Britain from the migrant camp in Calais. | The first group of unaccompanied children without family ties to the UK has arrived in Britain from the migrant camp in Calais. |
They came under the "Dubs amendment" rules which allow particularly vulnerable children - such as girls and those under 13 - refuge in the UK. | They came under the "Dubs amendment" rules which allow particularly vulnerable children - such as girls and those under 13 - refuge in the UK. |
They were among 70 boys and girls to be taken to London from the "Jungle" camp. | They were among 70 boys and girls to be taken to London from the "Jungle" camp. |
French police have clashed with migrants at the site, which is scheduled to be closed on Monday. | French police have clashed with migrants at the site, which is scheduled to be closed on Monday. |
About 10,000 leaflets are due to be distributed by the French authorities, telling people to report to a hangar, where they will be taken by bus to other parts of France and given the opportunity to claim asylum. | |
But there is concern among charities that some migrants will refuse to go to reception centres elsewhere in France, because they still want to get to Britain. | But there is concern among charities that some migrants will refuse to go to reception centres elsewhere in France, because they still want to get to Britain. |
Read more on this story: | Read more on this story: |
How are child migrants' ages checked? | How are child migrants' ages checked? |
The desperate children of the Calais Jungle | The desperate children of the Calais Jungle |
Migrant children dream of getting to UK - Lyse Doucet | Migrant children dream of getting to UK - Lyse Doucet |
The Calais conversation that left Lily Allen in tears | The Calais conversation that left Lily Allen in tears |
As many as 10,000 people, mainly from Africa and the Middle East, are estimated to live in the camp. | |
There have been scenes of violence as some attempt to board lorries bound for the UK, clashing with drivers and police in the process. | |
About 50 to 70 children from Calais are expected to be taken to a hostel in north Devon on either Sunday evening or Monday morning, sources have told the BBC. | |
The Home Office says local authority social workers will help with cases where the children do not have family in the UK as they need to be processed differently from those children who do have. | |
For those children with family ties in the UK it has to be proved that they have relatives able to care for them, under the so-called Dublin regulation. | |
The Home Office has refused to comment on claims in the Observer newspaper that some children are being held in an immigration detention unit near Gatwick airport and others placed in foster care. | |
The arrival of migrant children in the UK earlier this week prompted controversy in newspapers and criticism from Monmouth MP David Davies, with suggestions that some of them looked older than 18. | |
He said migrants should have their teeth tested to verify their ages. The call was rejected by the government which pointed out such examinations have been described as "inaccurate, inappropriate and unethical" by dental experts. | |
Chief executive of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, Saira Grant, said the process to get children out of Calais had been "shambolic". | |
She condemned the controversy over the ages, saying: "It creates an artificial distinction which suggests that all the others who fled war, atrocities and persecution are not worthy of our help because they are adults." | |
But UKIP leadership candidate Raheem Kassam said the government should publish records of the migrants allowed in to the UK. | |
He told Sky News' Murnaghan programme: "We don't want their faces, we don't want their names attached to these things, but we can show these tests have been done." | |
Meanwhile, the Sunday Telegraph reported the Home Office rejected an offer in August of expert help from social workers to establish the ages of asylum seekers in Calais who wanted to enter the UK. | |
David Simmonds, chairman of the Local Government Association's asylum, refugee and migration taskforce, told the newspaper: "They only started asking for social workers with age-assessment experience on Friday." | |
A Home Office source told the paper the support was not needed when it was first offered. | |
Lord Dubs successfully campaigned for an amendment to the Immigration Bill in April allowing for unaccompanied child migrants to be brought to the UK where they do not have family links but are considered to be at risk. | |
Profile: Lord Alfred Dubs | |
What is the 'Jungle'? | What is the 'Jungle'? |
Work begins on UK-funded border wall | Work begins on UK-funded border wall |