Home Office Denies 'Degrading' Conditions In Asylum Housing

The Home Office has denied asylum seekers are being housed in “degrading conditions” and said it is content for private contractors to carry out their own inspections of housing that they manage. The government has also rejected a call for an independent review of people’s experience of living in accommodation assigned to them while they seek refugee status. Parliament’s Home Affairs Committee last year urged the Home Office to improve “unacceptably poor” conditions in some housing for asylum seekers, including dirty living quarters, leaks, damp, broken equipment and poor quality furnishings. Read more on the Civil Service World website.

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