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'Critical incident' declared over child migrant arrivals

Border Force personnel are accommodating newly-arrived unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC) in Kent.

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By Martin Ford | 19 August 2020

Border Force personnel are accommodating newly-arrived unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC) in Kent.

The children are being put up in the Kent Intake Unit until places can be found with local authorities elsewhere in the country.

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