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UK RESETTLEMENT PROGRAMME OF INDO-CHINESE REFUGEES
ESSENTIAL FACTS
1. There are about 3000 places available in reception
centres at present.
2. Reception and resettlement arrangements are being made by 3 voluntary organisations, the British Council for Aid to Refugees, the Ockenden Venture, and the Save the Children
Fund. The reception and resettlement programme is being co-ordinated by a newly-established committee, the Joint
Committee for Refugees from Vietnam, under the Chairmanship
of Sir Arthur Peterson, a former PUSS at the Home Office, on
which are represented the 3 voluntary organisations and the
Home Office.
3. The Government's policy is to resettle the refugees in small groups spread widely around the country where housing and job opportunities are available.
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