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"Mr President, at the last Parliament session here we picked up on the issue about what was happening in Calais, and I want to use that as the basis for what I say this afternoon. We saw some of the first children brought from Calais to the UK only in the last few days, where they were greeted by the press saying: ‘My God, these do not look like children’. So you think, well, how do you expect a child who spent two years walking from Afghanistan to get to the border of France to look? Not exactly like the 13-year-olds, for example, that we might see in our own classrooms and our own streets.
What we have seen at Calais, and I think we have seen in a number of other places, has been a deliberate foot-dragging by the authorities, even to work with the Dublin system to reunite those with families. We see a lack of dedicated staff for dealing with under-18s. We see children who are identified by NGOs such as Safe Passage, who are then lost by the authorities because they have really got no system to deal with them. We see a lack of support to local authorities who are willing to accept unaccompanied minors, to provide them with school places and foster care. We see a lack of support for family members who may, for example, be not in a good situation to take on their young family members themselves.
How do you feel as a 24-year-old living alone when you are suddenly asked to look after your 14-year old brother that you last saw 10 years ago? We know that there are significant issues around guardianship and child protection. We have known that for years in this House. We know it for children from Europe themselves, as well as for those coming in. So is the Commission satisfied that the new asylum proposals provide a genuine framework for looking after those children from the moment of their arrival to determination of status and beyond? Or are we once again looking at the words, not the reality?"@en1
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