EXCLUSIVE: eOne has struck a multi-year first-look deal with BAFTA-winning writer-director Paul Andrew Williams.
16.09.2022 - 19:57 / dailyrecord.co.uk
People in Falkirk are being urged to help to look after children and young people who have made the long dangerous journey to the UK to seek asylum with no parents or family to protect them.
The unaccompanied asylum seeking children have risked their lives to escape countries such as Ukraine, Syria and Afghanistan. They could be fleeing war, famine, poverty or abuse. They may have seen adults in their lives tortured or murdered, or they may have been forced to fight as a child soldier.
Most of them are aged 16 or 17, although they can be younger - and they are all extremely vulnerable.
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With the numbers of such children rising all the time, councils in the south-east of England have become overwhelmed. Currently, around 300 unaccompanied asylum seeking children are in hotels, with no adults to care for them.
Councils, including Falkirk, are now on a rota to take them in, given just five days to make sure that safe accommodation is in place before the child makes the long, lonely journey by taxi.
Falkirk Council service manager Sharon Laing often thinks about this journey and what it must be like for the children.
She said: "It's a long, long drive - not knowing where they are going. They might have some information on a bit of paper, maybe a couple of photographs - but they don't have any control over it.
"Even when they were travelling they had some choice about what happened but that journey...
"And then to have somebody warm, loving, nurturing saying 'Come in - what do you want to drink? Here's your safe, warm, comfortable, dry bed and a room that's yours for as long as you need it. You're safe now."
As far as Sharon is concerned,
EXCLUSIVE: eOne has struck a multi-year first-look deal with BAFTA-winning writer-director Paul Andrew Williams.
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