Dan Peters 05 June 2024

Judge: Kent cannot wriggle out of asylum duties

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Kent CC has been told by a judge it cannot wriggle out of its duties to ‘accommodate and look after’ all unaccompanied asylum seeking (UAS) children.

The judgment comes amid predictions that increasing numbers of UAS children will arrive over the summer on top of numbers ballooning by 59% last year – from 1,405 in 2022 to 2,228 in 2023.

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