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At this rate 15,000 would arrive in the whole of this year, compared with the 8,713 seen in 2020

Fri 23 Apr 2021 02.00 EDT The full scale of Home Office failures in managing former military sites as makeshift accommodation for asylum seekers is laid bare in a raft of damning documents seen by the Guardian. An unpublished report by prison inspectors and correspondence sent by the outgoing chief inspector of borders and immigration, David Bolt, highlight “serious mistakes” and “fundamental failures of leadership and planning” by the Home Office in its management of the Napier barracks site in Kent and Penally camp in Pembrokeshire. In an explosive letter to Priti Patel, the home se...

'Serious error of judgement' to use Army barracks to house asylum seekers as MPs call for shutdown © Sky News Screen Grab Residents at Napier Barracks said they were 'treated like criminals' Using military barracks to house asylum seekers was a "serious error of judgement" after a major coronavirus outbreak at one site, an inspection has ruled. Conditions at Napier Barracks in Folkestone, Kent and Penally Camp in Wales were "utterly unacceptable" and represented "serious failings on the part of the Home Office", chief inspector David Bolt said. © PA Penally Camp in Wales was shut down...

Cross-party group says people should be housed in community rather than ‘unacceptable’ camp in Kent