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<p>The data requested cannot be provided as it comes from live operational databases
that have not been quality assured.</p><p>There has been a significant increase in
the numbers of young people making unnecessary and dangerous journeys to the UK. The
Home Office has had no alternative but to temporarily use hotels in order to give
some unaccompanied asylum seeking children (UASC) emergency accommodation and support
while permanent accommodation with a local authority is identified.</p><p>We are determined
to end the use of hotels for these young people and Home Office officials work tirelessly
with local authorities to move children into care placements through the National
Transfer Scheme (NTS).</p><p>To help achieve this, we have provided local authorities
with children’s services £15,000 for every eligible young person taken into their
care from a Home Office-run hotel dedicated to unaccompanied asylum-seeking children
or the Kent Reception and Safe Care Service by the end of February 2023.</p>
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