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Council chiefs say they will refuse to take more dispersed asylum seekers – if the government does not order other areas to do their fair share .
Stoke-on-Trent City Council has issued the ultimatum to the Home Office due to growing concerns the city is having to host a disproportionate number of refugees, while other areas do nothing.
Asylum seekers on board a Border Force boat after they were caught attempting to cross The Channel Council leaders in West Berkshire were expecting more unaccompanied asylum-seeking children to arrive in 2020 but “they just didn’t appear”. Each year West Berkshire Council takes responsibility for desperate children who end up in the district after climbing aboard lorries that travel along the M4 and the A34. It is also part of voluntary National Transfer Scheme, which allows unaccompanied asylum-seeking children to be transferred from one local authority to another. The Home Office called on councils across the country take responsibility for more young refugees after Kent County Council was overwhelmed by an influx in August.