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<p>With regard to the resettlement of 20,000 Syrians that the Prime Minister announced
on 7 September, this is a voluntary scheme whereby local authorities sign up to accept
refugees on a voluntary basis and there is no expectation on any particular local
authority.</p><p>We are working closely with those local authorities that have indicated
they wish to be involved as well as with the Local Government Association and with
the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities. We do not disclose the details of where
refugees are resettled upon their arrival in the UK under the Government resettlement
schemes as this may undermine the privacy and recovery of this vulnerable group of
people.</p><p>The Home Office alongside other departments and the Local Government
Association and the Convention of Scottish Authorities will work with individual local
authorities who are volunteering to take Syrian refugees to secure appropriate accommodation.</p><p>The
Government has committed to investing £7 billion on new school places over the next
six years, and in the last Parliament funding for school places doubled to £5 billion
to create 445,000 additional places. Local Authorities are allocated funding for school
places based on their own local data on school capacity and pupil forecasts, in which
they take account of factors including rising birth rates, housing development, trends
in internal migration and migration to England from elsewhere in the United Kingdom
and from overseas. We continue to work with Local Authorities to make sure that every
child has a school place.</p>
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