MPs on the Communities and Local Government Committee found there wasinsufficient communication from placing authorities that needs to beaddressed.
The committee's Coastal Towns report also found that the towns have ahigh number of vulnerable children moving to them.
"Kent County Council referred to the placement of vulnerable adults andchildren, in particular by London boroughs, in its coastal towns as'social dumping', and indeed, it can be seen as this," the reportsaid.
"(Kent County Council's) evidence showed that the majority oflooked-after children within the Thanet area were there as a result ofout-of-area placements and there were 'nearly eight times more than inthe Kent district of Tunbridge Wells'."
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