Asylum: Children

(asked on 9th February 2023) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish her Department’s plans for ending the use of hotels to accommodate unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.


Answered by
Robert Jenrick Portrait
Robert Jenrick
This question was answered on 22nd February 2023

The rise in the number of small boat crossings has placed significant pressures on local authority care placements for young people.

We take the safety and welfare of those in our care seriously and the Home Office has robust safeguarding procedures in place to ensure those in our accommodation are as safe and supported as possible as we seek urgent placements with a local authority.

Adult men are not accommodated with asylum seeking women and children in dispersal accommodation unless they are part of the same family group. Single adult men are not accommodated with female adults, families or unrelated children.

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