THIRD SECTOR

Drawing from the past to help today's refugees

Brad Collier draws from his experience resettling Vietnamese people in the 1980s to set out what support needs to be provided to Ukrainian refugees – and he believes councils must be empowered to manage resettlement.

Watching the horror unfolding in Ukraine in the days following the invasion, and immediately seeing the trickle of displaced families become a flood, I wondered with deep foreboding how the UK Government would respond.

How quickly and well would we help these traumatised people?

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