Photograph: Adam Stepien/Agencja Wyborcza.pl/ReutersPhotograph: Adam Stepien/Agencja Wyborcza.pl/ReutersLocal councils will be given £10,000 for each Ukrainian refugee welcomed into their area, the levelling up secretary, Michael Gove, has promised, as he called for “every available bed” to be offered under a newHouseholds will be invited to register from Monday if they are willing to provide a room for a Ukrainian refugee.
The refugees would be allowed to work, Gove said. They will be entitled to NHS care and their children can attend local schools while they are in the UK. He said local authorities would be offered £10,000 for each individual to help facilitate that, with additional payments for children. He acknowledged there was a “quite a high legal bar to cross”, however, and said even if it did go ahead, it would not mean “permanent confiscation” of the properties involved. “While you are not using or profiting from it, if we can use it in order to help others, let’s do that,” he told BBC One’s Sunday Morning programme.