The number of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children being looked after in Shropshire is up from last year.
Data from the Department of Education shows 31 lone asylum-seeking children were in care in Shropshire on March 31, up from 24 the year before.The Children's Society is warning that local authorities, already stretched to capacity and struggling to find placements for children in care, are leaving young people at risk.
Marieke Widmann, Children’s Society policy and practice advisor said: “Children arrive here alone, after a traumatic and dangerous journey, separated from their families and loved ones – some may even have been trafficked to the UK – it’s absolutely essential that they get the right support and protection in place and quickly.
Across the country, 5,570 unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors were being looked after by local authorities at the end of March – the largest number since records began in 2004 and up 34 per cent on the year before.
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