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RESOLVED – (i) That the consultation response, attached as an Appendix to report CE/37/23, that proposes a pledge to resettle up to 7 families across the schemes in scope of the consultation be submitted. (ii) That the Lead Member agrees that Wrexham County Borough Council should fulfil its previous commitment to resettle up to a maximum of 10 families in Wrexham under the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP) and ACRS schemes combined. (iii) That these matters be dealt with as an urgent item of business in accordance with Section 5 (Rule 5.8.10) of the Council’s Constitution, in order to meet the Home Office consultation deadline. Reasons for decisions (i) To respond to the Home Office consultation on the safe and legal routes cap thus agreeing an appropriate pledge for humanitarian assistance through resettlement schemes in Wrexham. (ii) To enable Wrexham to fulfil its earlier commitment to respond to the Home Office request to provide urgent humanitarian assistance to those who have assisted the UK efforts in Afghanistan by relocating families through both the ARAP and the similar ACRS schemes; providing a timely response to the Home Office request for support in light of the time sensitivity of the issue in hand.
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RESOLVED – (i) That the consultation response, attached as an Appendix to report CE/37/23, that proposes a pledge to resettle up to 7 families across the schemes in scope of the consultation be submitted. (ii) That the Lead Member agrees that Wrexham County Borough Council should fulfil its previous commitment to resettle up to a maximum of 10 families in Wrexham under the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP) and ACRS schemes combined. (iii) That these matters be dealt with as an urgent item of business in accordance with Section 5 (Rule 5.8.10) of the Council’s Constitution, in order to meet the Home Office consultation deadline. Reasons for decisions (i) To respond to the Home Office consultation on the safe and legal routes cap thus agreeing an appropriate pledge for humanitarian assistance through resettlement schemes in Wrexham. (ii) To enable Wrexham to fulfil its earlier commitment to respond to the Home Office request to provide urgent humanitarian assistance to those who have assisted the UK efforts in Afghanistan by relocating families through both the ARAP and the similar ACRS schemes; providing a timely response to the Home Office request for support in light of the time sensitivity of the issue in hand.
The Lead Member for Finance and Performance submitted a report (CE/37/23) to respond to the Home Office’s consultation on Safe and Legal routes cap including a pledge for the number of households the local authority can resettle during the first year of the cap; and to enable the Authority to accept individuals/families who have arrived in the UK under the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme in advance of the above aforementioned pledge, in order to fulfil previous commitments to resettle up to 10 families from the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy. RESOLVED – (i) That the consultation response, attached as an Appendix to report CE/37/23, that proposes a pledge to resettle up to 7 families across the schemes in scope of the consultation be submitted. (ii) That the Lead Member agrees that Wrexham County Borough Council should fulfil its previous commitment to resettle up to a maximum of 10 families in Wrexham under the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP) and ACRS schemes combined. (iii) That these matters be dealt with as an urgent item of business in accordance with Section 5 (Rule 5.8.10) of the Council’s Constitution, in order to meet the Home Office consultation deadline. Reasons for decisions (i) To respond to the Home Office consultation on the safe and legal routes cap thus agreeing an appropriate pledge for humanitarian assistance through resettlement schemes in Wrexham. (ii) To enable Wrexham to fulfil its earlier commitment to respond to the Home Office request to provide urgent humanitarian assistance to those who have assisted the UK efforts in Afghanistan by relocating families through both the ARAP and the similar ACRS schemes; providing a timely response to the Home Office request for support in light of the time sensitivity of the issue in hand.
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