Issue - meetings

Report of the Corporate Director (Housing and Communities) on the resettlement of families in the Borough.

(1)       The Cabinet noted that the Council had resettled two families (11 people) through the Syrian Vulnerable Person’s Relocation Scheme and that a third family (five people) had been accepted due to arrive in December 2018.

(2)       The proposal to resettle further families via the scheme by the end of March 2020 was noted.

Report of the Corporate Director (Housing and Communities) on the resettlement of families in the Borough.

In September 2015 the Prime Minister announced that the Government was increasing its commitment to the resettlement of Syrian refugees.

In April 2016 the Cabinet agreed that the Council should participate in the Syrian Vulnerable Person’s Relocation Scheme with an initial target to resettle up to ten Syrian refugees in the Borough.

RESOLVED:

(1)     That the Cabinet notes that the Council had resettled two families (eleven people) through the Syrian Vulnerable Person’s Relocation Scheme and that a third family (five people) had been accepted due to arrive in December 2018.

(2)     That the proposal to resettle further families via the scheme by the end of March 2020 be endorsed.