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The Home Office has placed more than 100 lone asylum-seeker children in hotels in recent weeks, despite the practice having been found unlawful by the high court.
The government’s continued use of hotels has been condemned by human rights and refugee organisations since more than 200 children have gone missing, including dozens who vanished from one hotel in Brighton.
One of the reasons why children continue to be placed in hotels, some for a number of weeks, is that Kent county council says it cannot cope with the number of children arriving. The council’s geographical location means it has responsibility to take into care lone children who arrive at the Kent coast in small boats. It has warned that they are struggling to meet their legal obligations to UK as well as asylum-seeker children.
Both the Home Office and Kent county council have been found by the high court to have acted unlawfully by failing to look after these children properly.
A high court case calling for this group of children to be protected is in progress, with the next hearing scheduled for 15 September. The court ruled in an earlier hearing that the Home Office’s routine use of accommodating children in hotels was unlawful. In another last week, it made an order declaring that Kent county council had acted unlawfully in its approach to the children.
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Michael Gove vowed that Brexit would “strengthen environmental protections” in the UK back in 2017 when trying to reassure remainers that leaving the EU did not mean leaving its standards behind.
But this week, the first proper ripping-up of an EU environmental rule was proposed by Gove himself, who has transitioned from proclaiming the virtues of a “green Brexit” to referring to the very rules he promised to protect as “defective”.
By telling local authorities in England to ignore the extra sewage pollution created by new developments in sensitive areas such as the Lake District and Norfolk Broads, an amendment proposed by the government essentially nullifies the EU’s habitats…
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