WEDNESDAY 4 MARCH 2020How the UK is ‘turning its
back’ on refugee children
Number of vulnerable minors resettled in Britain plummets
A child cries as a dinghy with 54 Afghan refugees lands on Lesbos (Getty)
MAY BULMAN
SOCIAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT
The number of child refugees brought to the UK through the government’s resettlement scheme
plummeted by 30 per cent last year.
Ministers have now been accused of “turning their backs” on vulnerable minors facing persecution
overseas.