HM Govt to reconsider its decision to stop taking unaccompanied child refugees.

Rejected 12 signatures

What the petition asks

As the BBC explains, ministers accepted the Dubs amendment last year after pressure from campaigners and members of the public to take children from the "Jungle" migrant camp in Calais. Today the Home Office in a written statement has said it will stop receiving these children. This is shameful.

The Government states that it will have accepted 350 children under this scheme. The organisation Help Refugees, which works with these children, estimates that there are "700 are children, 78% of whom are unaccompanied". To accept more of these children is humane and decent. Furthermore, these children are vulnerable to exploitation by traffickers, terrorist groups and other criminals. Furthermore, local authorities accepted responsibility to take and care for these children.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

The following petition is similar to yours:
Keep open the 'Dubs scheme' to resettle 3000 unaccompanied refugee children.

Timeline

8 Feb 2017	Petition opened for signatures
14 Feb 2017	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 12

Status Rejected

Rejected 14 Feb 2017

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