The measure to resettle 3,000 unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in the UK was championed in the House of Lords by Labour Peer Lord Dubs, who came to the UK on the Kindertransport from German-occupied Czechoslovakia in 1939, aged six.
This measure would effectively double the number of unaccompanied children in the UK seeking asylum.
For this measure to become law, it must be agreed upon by the House of Commons, and many questions about the means, the legal status of the children and the geographical location of those that would be resettled remain unanswered.
However, we have this information for the unaccompanied children that are already here, which might be a useful indicator for trying to understand the obstacles faced by the 3,000 children that could be brought to the UK.
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