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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Miriam Burrell

Council funding boosted to get lone migrant children out of hotels

Migrants arrive at Dover after being rescued while attempting to cross the English Channel

(Picture: REUTERS)

Councils will receive extra money to incentivise them to move hundreds of lone migrant children out of hotels and into their care faster, the Government has said.

Local authorities that move unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC) from hotels to their care within five working days - instead of the previous 10-day deadline - will receive an extra £6,000 per child over three months, the Home Office said.

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