UK Threatened With Legal Action Over Children's Conditions in Calais Camps

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.”