Over the past year, an increasingly diverse range of local authorities have found themselves supporting young people in care and care leavers affected by immigration control.
Some councils are supporting the 2,872 young people on their own in the UK seeking asylum.
Most young asylum seekers live with foster carers or in supported lodgings with the local authority as their corporate parent. The same is true for young people trafficked to the UK. Others in care are affected by immigration control because the immigration status of their family is unclear or unknown. Some will have been born in the UK or have spent most of their childhood here, but their immigration status has never been resolved.
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