UK's Syrian Refugee Resettlement Scheme A 'Tragic Bureaucratic Failure'

A year after the government promised to resettle 20,000 Syrian refugees, some local authorities say people are not being processed quickly enough. The head of housing at Liverpool Council, which offered to take 100 refugees but is in the process of receiving just one, told Sky News that the scheme was a "tragic bureaucratic failure". Home Office figures show that in the first nine months of the scheme from October 2015 some 2,646 people were resettled across 118 local au