Portsmouth City Council is no longer taking in unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC) as it grapples with providing support to three times its quota.
The situation reached crisis point during the summer as 22 children arrived in the city in a little over a month, leaving it with 96 to support through its care system.
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