Hundreds of unaccompanied asylum seeker children are in line to be housed in Scotland to ease pressure on English local authorities, The Herald has learned.
The Home Office is consulting on proposals to find other homes for about 3000 children who arrive alone in the UK each year and claim asylum, after complaints from London and south-east England that they take too many of the youngsters.
Glasgow City Council, which houses hundreds of asylum seeker families as part of the government’s previous dispersal scheme, has confirmed to The Herald that it is discussing proposals with the Home Office to become a “specialist authority” caring for unaccompanied asylum seeker children.
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1 fatcat88 // Jun 29, 2007 at 8:08 pm
how do these kids get on airplanes in the first place and why are they not sent back immediately ! The government has no right to allow those kids into the country.
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