(BBC) The rising number of child migrants crossing the Channel by boat risks overwhelming social services, the leader of Kent County Council has said.
Roger Gough appealed to Priti Patel to “prevent a crisis escalating into something unmanageable and unsafe.”
More than 170 unaccompanied children have arrived in Kent since January, mainly by small boat, he said.
The Home Office said payments to councils to deal with the problem “significantly increased” in May 2019.
But Mr Gough said the numbers of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC) had [risen] to levels seen during the height of the European migrant crisis in 2015.
