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<p>We provide high-quality facilities to minors upon immediate arrival in the UK at
Kent Intake Unit and all their needs are provided for.</p><p>The unit works closely
with Kent Children’s Services to ensure the unaccompanied children are processed and
placed into appropriate care as quickly as possible.</p><p>We continue to prioritise
work with local authorities (LA), and Kent County Council, to ensure that children
are transferred into local authority care as soon as possible via the National Transfer
Scheme (NTS). We have supported this through our incentivised funding pilots to all
local authorities across the UK, which aimed to encourage quicker transfers into local
authority care.</p><p>Between December 22 and February 23, the Home Office increased
our incentivised offer to £15,000 per child, to allow local authorities to invest
more money in long term infrastructure to support the children they received. We will
continue to provide incentivised funding throughout 2023-24, with every local authority
receiving £6,00 for each unaccompanied child transferred from a dedicated UASC hotel
into local authority care within five working days. This funding is in addition to
the contribution made by the Home Office to LA’s receiving children through the NTS,
which can equate to £52,195 per child, per year, up to the age of 18.</p><p>Recent
figures show that 70% of UASCs are over 16. Further details can be found at the Asylum
and Resettlement datasets – Gov.UK: Asylum and resettlement datasets - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</p>
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