Scotland pauses Ukraine refugee super sponsor scheme
while private sponsorship applications in England have gone down.
And Scotland's largest social landlord, the Wheatley Housing Group, has pledged to make 300 homes available to local authorities across the country. "With a recent decrease in people applying for private sponsorship in England, and Wales having paused their own scheme, the number of applications naming the Scottish government as sponsor has increased considerably in recent weeks.
Ms Sturgeon told BBC Scotland: "What is really important is that now we are seeing significant numbers of people coming from the Ukraine to Scotland - something I welcome - we are able to give long-term support."It has massive support in Scotland and I want to see it continue so that we can play our full part in helping those displaced from Ukraine while the government and the people of Ukraine continue to fight Russian aggression.
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