Not a single child has been helped to leave the Calais migrant camp despite changes to the UK's Immigration Act four months ago which were meant to assist them.

Labour peer Lord Dubs made the revelation during a tour of the so-called 'Jungle' camp in the French port town.

"There are 800 unaccompanied children in this camp and 387 now have the right to go to Britain, but not one has," he told Sky News.

Image: Hundreds of children still remain at the camp

"I'm appalled and I'm terribly disappointed. I'll be meeting with the new immigration minister soon and I will be bringing this up.

"We can't keep doing nothing."


Lord Dubs, 83, came to Britain as a child refugee during World War II after fleeing his native Czechoslovakia and the invading Nazis.

He was accompanied on the trip to the Calais camp by the actress and veteran political activist Vanessa Redgrave.

Image: Vanessa Redgrave: 'It's absolutely dreadful here'

Referring to the French government's plan to bulldoze the entire site by Christmas, she said: "I feel like I am in Richard III or in the time of Shakespeare, where he's writing about these terrible historical characters. And it's happening again.

"It's absolutely dreadful here. No child or adult should be living like this."

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Around 70 new people are arriving in the camp each day and it is now home to nearly 10,000 people in total.

The mayor of Calais has also backed calls for the site to be dismantled as soon as possible.