I want to tell you a very short story about my father who was born and brought up in Llanbrynmair and who was called up to fight in the second world war and found himself imprisoned in Stalag 22 for four years and managed to escape from Poland to Scotland. He only was able to do that because he had the help and kindness of strangers in a strange land. He continued all his life and was out there to fight and help retain peace and understanding rather than the promotion of hate and ignorance. And as a consequence of that, he also remained a huge supporter of the European Union that was founded on those very principles of peace and understanding.

We have heard today that there are many, many Syrian refugees in this country, and they are here, equally, because of the consequences of war. We, rightly, make those people welcome. But the issue that I would like to raise here today is that in welcoming those individuals, we do recognise, and we have, in this statement today, the unaccompanied minors. I'm really, really pleased that we in Wales are giving some guardianship support and service to those individuals, because I don't know how many people here in this room would understand how very difficult it is to tell and retell your story about how you've ended up in a country completely traumatised.

I know that my father would understand that, because he couldn't talk about it. So, we need to keep those people, those children safe. The closure of the Dubs scheme is absolutely scandalous because it was, particularly, to keep identified children at the source, where they were identified as being in danger, to travel to safety. I cannot understand how anybody could close a scheme that he himself has identified as being alive today as a consequence of. That only leaves the gates open to human traffickers, and to those young people ending up in slavery. And there's plenty of evidence to support that that is exactly what happens. There's also plenty of evidence to support the fact that unaccompanied minors who end up in the care system are actually going missing. And there's plenty of evidence, also, that supports the fact that, of the young females who find themselves going missing, 86 per cent of them end up in the sex trade.