Due to the highest number of asylum seekers coming into the UK in recent history; councils across the UK are to be forced to care for unaccompanied asylum seeker children as they arrive in the UK.
Asylum Seekers coming
This decision, is said, to be in the children’s best interest but it has not been taken lightly from Kevin Foster, Immigration Minister.
As it stands, over 100 children are living in hotels because of a shortage of places in children’s homes. The government will pay councils £143 per child per night under the scheme to councils.
Do you think this is the right thing to do?
