Ukrainian orphans heading to Scotland after delay

The group of children will finally arrive in Scotland on Wednesday A group of 52 children from orphanages in Dnipro, Ukraine can travel to Scotland later after their paperwork was completed. The children and their guardians were supposed to leave Poland on Monday, but a vital document from the Ukrainian government was not sent in time. A Virgin plane has landed in Warsaw and is expected to return to London later. A stay in London has been cancelled and the group will instead go directly to their temporary home in Callander. The charity Dnipro Kids, which was set up by Hibs FC fans, enabled many of the children to flee Ukraine for Poland. A second group of children were accompanied by Sally Becker, founder of Save a Child.The Edinburgh-based charity has made arrangements for the children, who range from infants to older teenagers, and their seven legal guardians to stay in a hostel while they acclimatise to life in Scotland. Mr Blackford said it had taken time to get the paperwork in order for the children to be evacuated to Scotland because they had to address all safeguarding concerns before they could be moved to another country. Writing on Twitter, he said: "This wasn't just about visas but the due diligence of a sovereign state getting the necessary permissions to allow the children to travel. We would all want the same for our children." He added that the children and their carers would be given privacy on the journey to the UK and the "time and peace to settle into new surroundings". Dnipro Kids chairman Steven Carr, who led the evacuation effort from Lviv in Ukraine and Poland, previously told BBC Scotland he had promised the children they would be made welcome in Scotland. After their flight was postponed on Monday, the charity posted a picture on social media showing the children with their bags packed and ready to leave.v