Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, who is supervising unaccompanied asylum seeking children placed in hotels; and whether that supervision is 24 hours a day.
UASC being temporarily accommodated in hotels are supported with wrap around care, including from professional care workers, social workers, and nurses. Activity is supported by SACC (Safeguarding Advice and Children’s Champion) a Home Office team led by professional advisers who are registered social workers with extensive strategic and frontline experience in safeguarding the vulnerable.
The Home Office have sole occupancy of all of the hotels in which UASC are temporarily accommodated
Accommodation costs are considered to be commercially confidential, therefore the Home Office does not publish this information.
The average length of time that unaccompanied asylum-seeking children spent in hotels after arriving in the UK during the period from 14 July 2021 to 24 May 2022 was 15.5 days. These figures are taken from a live operational database. As such, numbers may change as information on that system is updated.