UK County Reaches Capacity to Care for Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children

UK County Reaches Capacity to Care for Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children
UK Border Force officers help migrants with children, believed to have been picked up from boats in the Channel, disembark from Coastal patrol vessel "HMC Hunter", in the port of Dover, on Aug. 9, 2020. Glyn Kirk /AFP via Getty Images
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Kent County Council’s children’s services is currently hosting almost three times the number of children it can accommodate and can’t accept more lone migrant children, local officials of the southeast English county said on Tuesday.

The announcement came as the number of  unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC) arriving in the UK reached a record high, and a row broke out between the UK and France over which country should take the migrants.