The Home Office has announced changes to the National Transfer Scheme (NTS) - which aims to fairly distribute unaccompanied migrant children across all local authorities – including increasing the number of placements a council must create based on their overall child population.
Under the scheme, which was made compulsory in February, councils were initially asked to create enough placements for unaccompanied migrant children equal to 0.07 per cent of their overall child population before being able to apply for young people to be transferred elsewhere.
Under new rules, the Home Office has increased this threshold to 0.1 per cent.
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