Kent County Council warns over child migrants
The number of children claiming asylum in Kent County is rising following the Calais migrant crisis. The council says it is unable to cope with the large numbers claiming asylum and is calling for help from across the South of England.
The Kent County Council has recently appealed to the children's services across the south of England and to the Home Office for urgently needed help with the £5.5 million funding shortfall and for help finding foster places for children who are on their own as young as the age of 12.
The number of young asylum seekers under 18 years old from countries such as Syria and Iraq rose from 238 a year ago to 369. The figures have now risen to 605 in the last few months.
On Thursday for the first time, police officers from the neighboring south-east forces were deployed to help with the Operation Stack. Kent's police and crime commissioner, Anne Barnes released a statement saying that the outside officers sent in under the mutual aid scheme were needed because the Kent police were "tired and exhausted after many weeks of long shifts in difficult conditions".
Foster carer Sheinaz Mouradi, from Ealing who has fostered children for five years says migrant children are in desperate need of help.
“It has not been easy. They have no families and they have had to be self-sufficient, living on the streets, and have been exposed to a lot of crime, so they are naturally a bit more grown-up,” she said.
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