Child asylum seekers in UK forced to share hotel rooms with adults

Child asylum seekers are being forced to share hotel rooms with adults, as the Home Office’s new hotel “maximisation” programme begins doubling the capacity of refugee hotels by putting two strangers in roomsspaces that were previously single occupancy, a charity has warned. The Refugee Council has warned that frequent misclassification of child refugees as adults at the UK border is exposing them to serious safeguarding risks, with the dangers heightened by the government’s new drive to reduce the cost of hotels by introducing a room-sharing policy. The Guardian interviewed seven young asylum seekers in Yorkshire this week, and all said they told border guards that they were 16 or 17 on arrival in the UK by small boat in August and September – but all said they were wrongly classified as adults by officials and given ages between 22 and 26. Refugee Council staff who subsequently interviewed them, and verified the identity documents of those who have them, believe errors have been made.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/30/child-asylum-seekers-in-uk-forced-to-share-hotel-rooms-with-adults

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