The consultation was launched after Kent County Council said it could no longer “safely” care for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC) due to an influx of arrivals at the Port of Dover between May and August.
Kent said it had received 430 UASC between January and 18 August when it was forced to leave children arriving via boat across the English Channel in the care of Border Force.
Kent council’s director of children’s services said in July that the council “had not successfully placed a child through the NTS since 2018”.
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