get email updates with the day's biggest stories invalid email something went wrong, please try again later. sign up thank you for subscribing we have more newsletters show me see our privacy notice  the notorious 'jungle' camp in calais has exploded in size and is now home to over 9,000 migrants.  a staggering 70 new people are arriving every day.  experts said the camp has increased in size by nearly a third in the past month alone.  according to a census conducted by l’auberge des migrants/help refugees, the jungle is currently home to 865 children - with more than 75% of them unaccompanied.  leigh daynes, executive director of the charity doctors of the world said: “there are hundreds of unaccompanied children living in squalid conditions in calais who are extremely vulnerable to all kinds of abuse.  image: getty images image: getty images  “already traumatised, some are too scared to go to the toilet at night for fear of being attacked – this cannot continue.  “refugee children eligible for asylum in the uk must be given safe passage to the uk without the need for complex legal challenges to make it happen.”  british councillors visited the camp today.  image: getty images  image: getty images  the uk’s local government association lga spoke with calais mayor natacha bouchart - in an attempt to better coordinate measures to keep unaccompanied children and young people safe.  the lga’s asylum, refugee and migration task group’s chairman david simmonds, said: “if children do come to the uk, councils want to get it right so that children who have experienced horrendous conditions within and since fleeing their country of origin are able to settle into uk life as quickly and easily as possible.”
sprawling calais jungle's booming population passes 9,000 mark as 70 new migrants arrive every day