(BBC) The number of unaccompanied child migrants arriving in Kent has risen significantly in the past 12 months, the county council leader has said.
Roger Gough claimed the number of young asylum seekers in the county had “doubled in a little more than a year.”
A drop in lorries crossing the Channel due to coronavirus had caused a rise in children arriving in dinghies, he said.
It has led to fears children are being trafficked into modern slavery, the Immigration Services Union said.
When asylum-seeking children arrive unaccompanied in Kent, usually at Dover, they are passed into the care of the county council.
