Just Fair UK and Human Rights Watch have published a joint report on conditions for children and their families who seek asylum in the UK.
The report finds that children and their families who seek asylum increasingly face inadequate living conditions in initial accommodation, adversely affecting their physical and mental health, access to education, and other human rights.
Just Fair UK and Human Rights Watch are calling on the Home Office to ensure that families with children receive suitable long-term accommodation in houses or flats as quickly as possible, strictly applying its 19-day guideline as a deadline for transfer out of initial accommodation.
Just Fair UK and Human Rights Watch are also calling on the Home Office to ensure that unaccompanied children are placed in housing that offers the care and protection to which they are entitled, and not in contingency hotel accommodation.
