Issue - meetings

Report of the Corporate Director (Housing and Communities) giving an update and seeking endorsement of the Council’s continued involvement and assistance in the current and future schemes.

(1)     The Cabinet noted that the Council had resettled three families (16 people) through the Syrian Vulnerable Person’s Relocation Scheme.

(2)     The Cabinet committed to take part in the Global resettlement scheme and endorsed the proposal to resettle a small number of further families via the scheme, in cases where there were established links with existing families.

Report of the Corporate Director (Housing and Communities) giving an update and seeking endorsement of the Council’s continued involvement and assistance in the current and future schemes.

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 had agreed that the Council should participate in the Syrian vulnerable persons’ relocation scheme with an initial target to resettle up to ten Syrian refugees in the Borough.

In anticipation of the conclusion of three large settlement schemes in 2020, the Home Office had recently published a statement in relation to its on-going committee to resettle vulnerable refugees and its plans to consolidate its largest schemes into one global resettlement scheme.

RESOLVED:

(1)       That the Cabinet notes that the Council had resettled three families (16 people) through the Syrian Vulnerable Person’s Relocation Scheme.

(2)       That the Cabinet commits to take part in the Global resettlement scheme and endorses the proposal to resettle a small number of further families via the scheme, in cases where there were established links with existing families.