Community Care

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

For the second year in succession , the increase has been driven almost entirely by increasing numbers of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children arriving in the UK, revealed the Department for Education’s (DfE) annual looked-after children’s statistics, issued last week.

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The Guardian

JANUARY 21, 2023

As scores of youngsters are disappearing from hotels run by the Home Office and being trafficked across the country, sources claims warnings over their safety were ignored On the first day of April, 17-year-old Wassim Hamam* disappeared near the bustling centre of Hove. He was never seen again.

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The Guardian

JULY 27, 2023

Judge says Home Office may only use housing arrangement for ‘very short periods in true emergency situations’ UK politics live – latest updates The Home Office’s “routine” housing of unaccompanied child asylum seekers in hotels is unlawful, the high court has ruled.

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The Guardian

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Exclusive: collapse in standards at Berkeley House triggers shutdown so sudden one family called it ‘inhumane’ Standards collapsed so quickly at a severely short-staffed care home that families were given just 10 hours’ notice of its final closure triggering a desperate scramble to find new homes for traumatised residents, the Guardian has learned.

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