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Lone migrant children to be left with Border Force after council hits capacity

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Lone migrant children arriving on small boats will be left with Border Force after Kent County Council hit capacity today. Large numbers of asylum-seeking youngsters reaching the UK have triggered an "unthinkable" situation where the council “cannot safely accommodate any more new arrivals".

More unaccompanied migrant children arriving over the weekend "tipped the balance", council leader Roger Gough admitted. He told the BBC: “Many of the people who arrive in Kent on the small boats will go on elsewhere in the country as part of the national dispersal scheme. “But these children and young people will come into our care as children in care under the Care Act. “We now have around 600 unaccompanied, asylum-seeking children in our care. “The

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