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Are these kids someone else’s problem, May?
- ‘deplorable’ reluctance to help refugee kids - 10,000 unaccompanied children go missing - just 8 homed in new PM Theresa May’s area

UNACCOMPANIED child refugees continue to be let down by the government’s “deplorable’ reluctance to help them, according to a scathing Lords report.

The peers’ study, published today, warns that 10,000 children who fled troublespots to Europe are now missing because Britain and other EU member states have shirked their responsibility to them.

Its publication comes amid criticism for Prime Minister Theresa May over her decision to scrap the government’s “minister for Syrian refugees” in her first days in Downing Street.

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