Contingency Asylum Accommodation News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

A child plays outside the gates of a hotel used as temporary accommodation for families waiting for their asylum claims to be processed, in west London, February 16, 2021 © 2021 Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images Map UK CRD Map Summary The United Kingdom has historically provided housing support to people seeking asylum who arrive in the country and are not immediately able to provide for their own basic needs. In recent years this system has increasingly been plagued by serious deficiencies, in

25 January 2021 The Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration (ICIBI) has begun an inspection of the use of hotels and barracks as contingency asylum accommodation and is inviting anyone with relevant knowledge or experience to submit their evidence to chiefinspector@icibi.gov.uk. The call for evidence will remain open for four weeks (until 19 February 2021). This inspection will examine the use made of hotels and other forms of contingency asylum accommodation, including Penally Camp and Napier Barracks, since the beginning of 2020. It will focus on the roles and responsibilitie...