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The voluntary refugee organisations should be able to c with the refugees from the Sibonga and the Roach Bank. There are doubts, however, about their capacity to cope with any further substantial influxes of boat people beyond that. This would almost certainly mean the opening of fresh camps. It is open to question whether either of the two main organisations have.sufficient management ability to control what would then have become a very complex, country-wide organisation with a relatively large budget. If the United Kingdom is forced to admit further substantial numbers over and above those from the m.v. Sibonga and m.v. Roach Bank, it seems inevitable that the Government would have to consider taking over some direct respon- sibility for their reception and resettlement. As it is, a very close eye would have to be kept on how the voluntary bodies copies with the Sibonga and Roach Bank groups.
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7. The availability of local authority services represents a further constraint. This is particularly true of housing. refugee arrivals have been phased so as to allow the voluntary refugee organisations to resettle them in various parts of the country after a relatively short time (three to six months) in a reception centre. They have been able to do this because the numbers have been matched by sufficient offers of housing from local authorities. It would not be as easy to accommodate a further, say, 1,000 refugees arriving over a short period; would have to spend a longer time in the reception centres. Another possible constraint would be the capacity of local education authorities to cope with the necessary language training on this scale. Outside London (where the "Well Park" refugees were received initially) this capacity has not so far been tested.
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