Lord Weidenfeld Fund offers to fund settlement of refugee children in UK

The Lord Weidenfeld fund has welcomed David Cameron’s decision to accept unaccompanied child refugees from Europe, and has offered to help finance them.

In a letter to the Prime Minister, the fund’s president Lord Woolf said: “The Weidenfeld Fund would like to offer a financial contribution towards the cost of those amongst them from the Christian minorities of the Middle East , in the memory of late Lord Weidenfeld.”

The offer comes after Mr Cameron said the government will not stand in the way of an amendment calling for Britain to take in unaccompanied refugee children who have already arrived in Europe.

Former Kindertransport refugee Lord Dubs had originally had his amendment to the immigration bill that would have seen the UK accept 3,000 child refugees rejected in a vote in the House of Commons last month.