The council said that reforms to national systems promised by the Home Office and Department for Education last year have not materialised and it has now taken the first steps in legal proceedings to "implement a long-term solution that will prevent this crisis from occurring again".
The proposed Judicial Review asks the Home Secretary to use her existing powers to direct local authorities other than Kent to receive their fair share of UASC.
It refers to the “refusal and/or continuing failure by the Home Secretary to exercise her powers to prepare a mandatory scheme to transfer some of the functions of KCC in respect of its responsibility to UASC’s to other local authorities in England, and to direct other local authorities in England to comply with that scheme.”
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