Concerned
UK citizens threaten to lodge a claim against the UK government for avoiding
intervention in the case of 30 children stranded in the desolate French camp.
Citizens
UK, a charity working with the Home Office on the current Calais operation, the
current programme of the UK government in the territory is slow and
one-dimensional.
They
threaten to launch legal actions against the government unless it intervenes in
the case of 30 of the most vulnerable children stranded in the area.
The charity
claimed the Home Office programme has ignored a group of over 500 unaccompanied
children about eight to 15 years old most of them females due to their lack of
relatives in the United Kingdom.
“The
government has still not set up a system to assess their best interests and
transfer these children, who include 38 girls from the Calais camp. Zero
children have been transferred to date under the amendment’s terms,” the
charity said in a statement.
George
Gabriel, community organiser with Citizens UK, said: “There are over 1,200
children in the middle of a muddy, freezing field surrounded by 10,000 adults
they do not know. The idea that as a country we cannot successfully reunite the
small number eligible with their families is ridiculous.
“The real
problem here is that the provisions introduced specifically to protect the very
youngest and most vulnerable children under the Dubs amendment have never been
acted on.”
