To provide an update to members on progress in accommodating Syrian Refugees in Oxford through the Government’s Syrian Vulnerable Person Resettlement Scheme and approve proposals to accommodate Syrian Refugees in Oxford over the coming months.

At Council Meeting on 23rd September 2015 Council considered a motion and agreed that the council should accommodate refugees in Oxford. Following that officers have been working with the Home Office to make arrangements for Oxford to participate in the government scheme. These arrangements have only recently been confirmed and this is the first opportunity to update CEB.