The scheme puts a legal responsibility on all councils with children’s services to accept transfers of asylum-seeking children from other local authority areas into their care.
The final group of 29 councils left to take part includes 17 who have made exemption requests.
They have all been written to by migration minister Kevin Foster this week to direct them to take part.
The remaining councils also includes 12 who already have high numbers of children. They have been told that they will be allocated transfers once the number of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in their care “falls below a certain level”.
Councils will not be allocated transfers when the number of asylum-seeking children already in their care makes up 0.07 per cent or more of their general child population.
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