Kent Resumes Receiving Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children

Kent Resumes Receiving Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children
A migrant family is taken into port after being intercepted by Border Force officials in the English Channel, in Dover, England, on Sept. 22, 2020. Luke Dray/Getty Images
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Kent on Monday resumed receiving new arrivals of unaccompanied child asylum-seekers into the council’s care, nearly four months after it stopped due to capacity overload.

The coastal county in southeast England on Aug. 18 said its children’s services was hosting almost three times the number of children it could accommodate and couldn’t safely accept more lone migrant children.