New pictures emerge from inside Napier Barracks in Folkestone
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Updated: 09:19, 09 March 2021
Pictures have been released alongside a damning report which reveal the inadequate and impoverished living conditions at military barracks where hundreds of asylum seekers have been housed.
Pictures show inside Napier Barracks in Folkestone, where asylum seekers have been living. All pictures: Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
The centre has been used by the Home Office to temporarily accommodate around 400 men seeking asylum in the UK since September last year.
Government body ICIBI, which carried out the two-day inspection with officers from Her Majestyâs Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP), have now released the key findings from the visit.
Home Office Housed Asylum Seekers In “Filthy, Impoverished And Unsafe” Barracks During Pandemic
A damning report into Napier Barracks in Kent said asylum seekers are being held in filthy conditions (Alamy)
08 March
A highly critical report into the use of “filthy” army barracks to house asylum seekers during the Covid-19 pandemic is “damning criticism of the leadership and culture of the Home Office”, according to Yvette Cooper.
The chair of the home affairs select committee said details of conditions at two sites, pubished today in a report by the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration (ICIBI) and Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP), “shows just how unsuitable, unsafe and inappropriate this accommodation was” during a pandemic.
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During the week of 15 February 2021 inspectors from ICIBI and Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP) visited Penally Camp and Napier Barracks, spending two days at each site.