UK Home Office Tells Councils to Find Accommodation for Channel Crossing Children

UK Home Office Tells Councils to Find Accommodation for Channel Crossing Children
A group of people on board the Dover lifeboat following a small boat incident in the English Channel are brought in to Dover, Kent, England, on Nov. 11, 2021. Gareth Fuller/PA
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The British Home Office is to write to councils urging them to take children who have arrived illegally in the UK without any parents or guardians.

A voluntary scheme is now going to be compulsory, meaning youngsters being looked after by authorities on England’s south coast will be moved to other parts of the country.