Will you sign up to the new refugee sponsorship scheme?

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The Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is apparently announcing next week a new refugee sponsorship scheme.

It would allow households to privately sponsor refugees from conflict zones.

Applications open this autumn, with the aim of resettling more than 10,000 people.

It’s modelled on Canada’s scheme and the Homes for Ukraine programme.

Sponsors would commit to providing financial, emotional and practical support.

What do people think? I just can't help thinking that with the current pressures on housing, schools, GPs and local services, how this will actually work in practice? Has anyone been involved in the Ukraine sponsorship scheme and can share what it was really like day-to-day?

Curious to hear everyone’s views.

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/home-secretary-announce-scheme-refugees-uk-lgdr8ff25

Absolutely not. I have children and my own safety to think about what an absolute joke to even suggest this to us after the lack of everything we do have

I’ve just read a thread where a man raped and murdered a two year old girl. It didn’t say whether the man was a refugee or not but I will not provide a refuge to any man at the moment they’re all scumbags!

How is this relevant to the post?

A "french" man but born in the Central African Republic .

By explaining why a government in their right mind would allow what's happening. It's sunoky to make a few of us really really rich while the rest suffer the consequences.

Oh sorry. I get it..my mistake..I'm with you

And they're okay to put others in danger for the sake of being seen as good.

This echoes the experience of many I know.

It's not that people didn't want to help. They absolutely did. It's just that the total lack of support means everyone involved is really vulnerable.

It means that refugees are often let down by the system, hosts face a mountain of issues they are ill equipped to deal with and they risk being stuck with someone who is taking the piss. This ultimately isn't in the interests of refugees as a whole because it leads to bad reputations and increasingly less willing to accept.

The initial idea for homes for Ukraine was a great one. It was really a good thing.

BUT it was so problematic and no one seems to have recognised this.

Any future scheme really should be looking at it as something to learn from. It doesn't look like this is the case so that only going to lead to problems for refugees and hosts. That's in no ones interests.

He held French citizenship but was from the Central African Republic.

France has had a big issue with crime from migrants

For all those asking about the details, WHOA! the Bill isn't even out yet.
To quote the Guardian "it will include two safe and legal routes for refugees to open from the autumn - a sponsorship scheme allowing community groups to identify refugees to support, and a university student scheme.....A third scheme will allow employers to sponsor refugees from next year"

None of these sound like the Homes for Ukraine scheme, and "support" or "sponsorship" take many forms other than welcoming someone into your home. Being available to help with advice on housing, schooling, doctors or english language would be invaluable in helping someone from a war zone settle and become a productive member of our society.
Besides, the charity Refugees at Home has been successfully facilitating refugees and asylum seekers to be homed with British families with a spare room for years so it can, and has been, done.
I'm obviously in the minority here, but I'm seriously interested.

@kayka You do know all Afghan resettlement schemes have been closed to new applications for the past year, don't you?

These schemes are targeted. I don’t imagine there will be huge uptake.

Don't want any schemes.

Those lefties never sign up, they are all mad

As have we as has Germany as has Italy

Cause and effect of the 2015 Merkel Wave.

Who will vet these schemes and make sure these people are true refugees and then who will analyse them to make sure they are safe ?

Are their constraints and more women and children encouraged ?
Who will decide this ?

No. I don’t want to give them false hope that I want them here.

Part of me wonders whether this is Labour simply trying to boost their voter base and/or scorching earth for the next government.

Already have no space, so no.

Yes, that's why the far right is on the rise across Europe. Most people don't want criminility brought into their countries and they don't want their culture changed.

But the well off who run everything don't listen. And this is the result. 152 far right AFD sitting in the German parliament. Well done Merkel and the idiots of the 'Welcome Culture'.

No thanks

We already have it.
Recent figures state that 50,000 illegal immigrants some of whom are criminals, have disappeared into our society.