She says the current system of accommodating young asylum seekers is blighted by a “lack of safeguarding measures” and poor information around their vulnerability.
Under the Illegal Migration Act the Home Office is given powers to accommodate children. De Souza instead wants to see children taken into local authority care “from the moment they arrive”.
Councils also need to “be given the funding they need to provide the medical and psychological help the young people need, and a safe and stable home that can provide them with consistent love and care”.
🧵 Exclusive data gathered under my statutory powers from @ukhomeoffice clearly shows vulnerable children fleeing war & persecution aren't getting the care they need.
Some as young as 10 arrived having experienced rape, torture, organ harvesting.
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