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<p>Local authorities are under a statutory obligation to provide accommodation for
unaccompanied children who arrive in their area. This means that they become looked
after children and should be safeguarded and have their welfare promoted in the same
way as any other looked after child. To help support this, the government has revised
the ‘Statutory guidance on the care of unaccompanied migrant children and child victims
of modern slavery’, which was published 1 November 2017: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/care-of-unaccompanied-and-trafficked-children"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/care-of-unaccompanied-and-trafficked-children</a>.</p><p>The
government recognises that unaccompanied asylum seeking and refugee children can be
some of the most vulnerable in our society. The government’s vision and additional
commitment to caring for these children is set out in the strategy for ‘Safeguarding
unaccompanied asylum seeking and refugee children’, published 1 November 2017: <a
href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/safeguarding-unaccompanied-asylum-seeking-and-refugee-children"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/safeguarding-unaccompanied-asylum-seeking-and-refugee-children</a>.</p><p>
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