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<p>Under the Vulnerable Children’s Resettlement Scheme (VCRS), we will resettle up
to 3,000 vulnerable children and their families up to the year 2020. The figures for
the VCRS will be published in the usual way, and will feature in future releases of
the Home Office’s immigration quarterly statistics.</p><p> </p><p>The Dublin Regulation
establishes which EU Member State has responsibility for assessing an individual’s
asylum claim. Under Article 8 of the Regulation, another EU Member State can raise
a Take Charge Request where a child has a family member legally present in the UK
and where transfer to the UK is in the child’s best interests. For transfers under
Article 8.2 there is the additional requirement that the relative – a grandparent
or adult aunt or uncle – is able to take care of the child. We will transfer children
where a Take Charge Request is raised and who meet these requirements to the UK for
their asylum claim to be assessed here. This is an ongoing commitment and no number
is associated with it.</p>
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