So please, stop listening to the fear. Find energy in taking real action.

Start by joining Juliet Stevenson in signing Citizen UK’s petition (40,000 signatories and counting) and set up a direct debit to brilliant initiatives by inspiring women like Josie Naughton and Lliana Bird’s Help Refugees and projects they support such as Phone Credit for Displaced People. Then go and act. Speak to your MP about Dubs. Mine did not flinch that much when my young son smeared an egg sandwich slowly over his table, and he did write on my behalf to the Minister for Immigration. Call your Council to hear their story, as many did object to the closure of Dubs. Speak to a social worker about fostering a refugee child.

One actual action a week. Let’s hold this line, and choose love not fear.

In the unforgettable words of Anne Frank: How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Photos: Rex Features

“One action a week: how you can fight this shameful U-turn on child refugees”