Community Care reported that in Kent, unaccompanied asylum-seeking children are being held at short-term centres for 17 hours on average and often overnight with no sleeping facilities, without talking to any social workers. As Kent council cannot accept any more unaccompanied children into its care since August, children were not always seen by a social worker before being sent to dispersal accommodation. In some cases, children are sent to adult detention centres, without having been age assessed, and these cases are very poorly documented by the authorities.
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