{"id":84389,"date":"2026-02-02T09:23:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T09:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=84389"},"modified":"2026-02-02T09:23:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T09:23:58","slug":"social-care-bill-for-asylum-seekers-reaches-774-million-as-councils-struggle-to-cope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/02\/social-care-bill-for-asylum-seekers-reaches-774-million-as-councils-struggle-to-cope\/","title":{"rendered":"Social care bill for asylum seekers &#8216;reaches \u00a3774 million&#8217; as councils struggle to cope"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1VsVX8.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Migrants Continue To Cross The English Channel From France\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Councils across the country are spending \u00a3744 million providing social care for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/politics\/2138948\/shocking-migrant-figures-show-labour\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">asylum seekers<\/a>, according to a study by the Taxpayers&#8217; Alliance,\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/social-care-bill-for-asylum-seekers-reaches-774-million-as-councils-struggle-to-cope\/ar-AA1Vt5rS?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&amp;cvid=921cd7995a644343c40d6a944ea1e536&amp;ei=13\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Councils across the country are spending \u00a3744 million providing social care for\u00a0asylum seekers, according to a study by the Taxpayers&#8217; Alliance,\u00a0 Read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84389","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health-and-social-care"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/small-boats.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84390,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84389\/revisions\/84390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}