In September 2015, the UK government committed to resettle in the UK by 2020 up to 20,000 refugees from war-torn Syria through the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme (VPRS).
So far, 8,535 people have been granted protection under the VPRS. Latest Home Office data shows that between July 2016 and June 2017, 5,637 people were resettled in 246 council areas - 2,872 of whom were children.
Up to now, local authorities have focused on securing homes, school places, language classes and health care for people being resettled under the scheme. It's easy to focus on the numbers of arrivals as markers of progress, but it's much more difficult to know you're heading in the right direction when it comes to longer-term goals of "integration" and "independence".
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