This time last year, as the Calais camp was razed to the ground, the Home Secretary announced the UK would take a leading role in protecting children caught up in the demolition.

As a result, this country helped secure the transfer of over 550 unaccompanied children to their family here in the UK.

It was a welcome and compassionate step by the Home Secretary and a move only made possible by our membership of the EU’s Dublin III Regulation.

But Brexit means this legal right to safety will soon come to an end. This piece of EU legislation meant those children could reach their family; their parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, or adult siblings.