Society Talk

29 places, 1,350 children. Read that again.

From the Ceuta post: the shelters there have an ordinary capacity of 29 places and now hold about 1,350 children! That's more than 4,600% over capacity according to Al Jazeera!

I'm glad Spain is moving about 500 of the most vulnerable kids to the mainland, even if the Guardian calls it a U-turn. Kids are kids, whatever the politics. I'm a researcher, not a policy person, but I can't see how anyone looks at those numbers and says 'leave them there'.