Calais Jungle children set to arrive in Britain ahead of camp demolition

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Children from the Jungle camp in Calais who have relatives in the UK are expected to arrive in the country as early as next week&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>British officials were sent to help French authorities speed up the removal of the youngsters to the UK before the site is demolished&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Under the so-called Dublin regulations&comma; asylum claims must be made in the first safe country a person reaches &&num;8211&semi; but children can have their application transferred to another country if they have family living there&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A Home Office spokesman said&colon; &&num;8220&semi;Work is continuing on both sides of the Channel to ensure this happens as a matter of urgency&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He added that Home Secretary Amber Rudd had made it &&num;8220&semi;crystal clear&&num;8221&semi; to the French Interior Minister that she intends to &&num;8220&semi;transfer as many minors as possible&&num;8221&semi; who are eligible under the rules&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Campaigners say they have identified hundreds who have a right to come to Britain &&num;8211&semi; either because they have family ties here or through a programme to give refuge to unaccompanied minors from Europe&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The sense of urgency surrounding the issue was reinforced by a warning that there could be a &&num;8220&semi;mass disappearance&&num;8221&semi; unless the transfer of children is secured before the closure of the camp&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A report by Tomas Bocek&comma; the Council of Europe secretary-general&&num;8217&semi;s special representative on migration and refugees&comma; said the threat of imminent eviction was causing children to put their lives at risk to get to Britain&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It said&colon; &&num;8220&semi;A mass disappearance&comma; like the one that occurred during the eviction of the southern part of the Jungle&comma; is considered highly likely unless the transfer of eligible children to the United Kingdom is secured before the closure of the camp&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Stephen Hale&comma; chief executive of the charity Refugee Action&comma; said&colon; &&num;8220&semi;It&&num;8217&semi;s fantastic news that&comma; at last&comma; vulnerable children in Calais will be reunited with their families in Britain&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;These children must have the support they need to rebuild their lives when they arrive&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He added that town halls &&num;8220&semi;also require long-term funding arrangements from government so that the commitment to support those children starting a new life in the UK is properly funded&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ms Rudd told the Commons last Monday that more than 80 unaccompanied children had been accepted for transfer under the Dublin regulations so far this year&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>French President Francois Hollande has said the site will be cleared by the end of the year&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed120e31dfa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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