CYP Now - Refugee Week: Sector calls for end of asylum-seeking children ‘mistreatment’

The government has been urged to end the “mistreatment” of asylum-seeking children arriving in the UK.

Last year UASC were taken into the care of Border Force in Dover. Picture: Adobe Stock

To mark Refugee Week (14-20 June), foster care charity TACT has called on the government to change the way unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC) are treated.

The calls come as Kent County Council announced it could no longer safely accept UASC into care following an influx of arrivals at the port of Dover over the last two months.

Kent and TACT are among those leading a campaign to make the government’s National Transfer Scheme (NTS) compulsory, meaning all local authorities would be required to take responsibility for UASC.

Here, CYP Now lays out the key issues facing UASC:

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