Local authorities and children's charities are at loggerheads with the Home Office because of a continued failure to resolve tension between immigration and children's policy.
Yesterday, Home Office officials were expected to give stakeholders a preliminary response to its consultation Planning Better Outcomes and Support for Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children. This includes plans to move young asylum seekers to specialist local authorities to reduce the strain on port-of-entry authorities such as Kent and Hillingdon.
But CYP Now understands that although a handful of local authorities are interested in taking on this specialist role, disagreements about funding and the treatment of care leavers have created a deadlock. Under existing plans unaccompanied asylum seekers would not be entitled to the same support as other looked-after children who leave care.
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