Following the vote to leave the EU in June 2016, European citizens were left in limbo about their status in the UK, as were British citizens living abroad. Of the three million EU nationals living in the UK, 679,000 were under 18 in 2016.
A significant proportion of these children have been living here long-term - around 258,000, or 38 per cent, were born in this country. The government published a white paper on exiting the EU in February, and on 26 June the policy paper Safeguarding the Position of EU Citizens in the UK and UK Nationals in the EU was published, setting out the UK's offer to EU nationals who are residing here.
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