Charities highlight plight of hundreds of asylum-seeking children placed in hotels by Home Office
Hundreds of unaccompanied children who have arrived in the UK on small boats in the last few months are suffering from hunger and neglect in hotels, charities have said.
Charity workers have catalogued a list of concerns about the welfare of lone asylum-seeking children in hotels, with some being forced to shave their heads after scabies outbreaks and to wear prison-style grey tracksuits.
Inadequate food that is not nourishing, leaving some children to go hungry.
Inadequate clothing, including prison-style plain grey tracksuits or insufficient changes of clothes.
Scabies outbreaks where children have shaved each other’s heads to try to rid themselves of the infection.
