I don’t how long it will take, it’s for the Home Office to decide.”

Britain’s Home Office says small groups of refugee children have been coming in a weekly basis for the last few months and hundreds are now expected to cross the Channel legally before the Calais camp is destroyed. Although the home secretary Amber Rudd promised last week that as many children as possible with direct family links in Britain would be brought to the UK, it has also emerged that the Home Office has yet to produce any detailed operational plans setting out precisely how the children will be transferred.
Syrian child refugees previously settled in the Calais jungle legally immigrate into England.