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Home Office squandered billions on ‘failed and chaotic’ asylum accommodation

Commons committee describes successive governments’ failures to manage hotel use, contracts, spending and safeguarding

The Guardian - UK

Revealed: How 'chaotic' use of migrant hotels has seen Home Office 'squander' billions of pounds

Government has repeatedly cut corners and wasted taxpayers’ money with its ‘failed, chaotic and expensive’ system, damning report finds

Evening Standard

Home Office has chance to end ‘failed’ asylum accommodation system, MPs say

The Home Office has repeatedly cut corners and wasted taxpayers’ money in its ‘chaotic’ response to asylum accommodation pressures, MPs warned.

The Independent UK

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High court halts eviction of refugee under Home Office 28-day policy

Judge intervenes in case, disapplying government rule that charities say drives refugees into homelessness

The Guardian - UK

London restaurant fined £120k for employing illegal workers fighting Home Office bid for it to be stripped of licence

A Home Office investigation had uncovered three Bulgarian women without the right to work in the UK employed at the popular eatery

Evening Standard

Fact check: Fake MP defection video, bus pass verification and immigration removals

Round-up of fact checks from the last week compiled by Full Fact.

Evening Standard

Police response to grooming gangs faces ‘significant challenges’, watchdog says

Scotland Yard chief Sir Mark Rowley said force had a ‘steady flow’ of ongoing investigations

Evening Standard

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Refugee misses chance to apply to bring family to the UK by 13 minutes after visa route closes

Refugees in the UK are unable to reunite with their loved ones after the Home Office paused a lifeline scheme in September

The Independent UK

'See you at the High Court,' London residents' threat to Government in row over new China mega-embassy

Beijing is piling pressure on the Government to back the new super-embassy by threatening “consequences” if it does not do so.

Evening Standard

Windrush victims to get 75% of compensation up front in scheme overhaul

Exclusive: Claimants will also be compensated for lost contributions to work or personal pensions for first time

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Conservative immigration policy: the threat of mass expulsions is abhorrent

Editorial: Tory plans to revoke indefinite leave to remain in pursuit of greater ‘cultural coherence’ resemble the most extreme ambitions of far-right fringe parties

The Guardian - UK

Migrants lose late-night High Court bids to block removal to France

Mr Justice Johnson said there was a ‘strong public interest’ in allowing the Home Office to continue with the removals scheme.

Evening Standard

Foreign Office and Home Office drop demand for security changes at new Chinese mega-embassy in London

EXCLUSIVE: Two Whitehall departments had been requesting that a planning condition be a new ‘hard perimeter’ for part of the controversial new diplomatic complex at Royal Mint Court in Tower Hamlets

Evening Standard

Migrants will be sent back to France ‘again and again’ – minister

Josh MacAlister said the detention of an Iranian national shows the Government’s one-in, one-out migrant returns deal with France is working.

Evening Standard

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The Independent UK

Shabana Mahmood says Home Office ‘not fit for purpose’ after secret report on department emerges

Dossier by ex-adviser Nick Timothy claims ‘culture of defeatism’ let immigration enforcement decline

The Independent UK

Teenage girl awarded scholarship at British boarding school trapped in Gaza

IN DEPTH: Exclusive: A gap in the Home Office’s evacuation rules means that high-school students with prestigious scholarships, like teenager Dania Alfaranji, have slipped through the cracks, reports Maira Butt

The Independent UK

Victims who quit grooming gang inquiry panel ‘may return if Phillips resigns’

As well as Jess Phillips’s resignation, they call for ‘all survivors on the panel to be genuinely consulted on the appointment of a chair’.

Evening Standard

Immigration turmoil as Mahmood says Home Office ‘not yet fit for purpose’

The number of migrants who have come to the UK so far this year in small boats has exceeded the total for last year, sources said.

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The Guardian - UK

Shabana Mahmood says damning report shows Home Office ‘not fit for purpose’

Home secretary vows overhaul after previously secret 2023 review lists series of perceived shortcomings

The Independent UK

Mahmood says Home Office ‘not fit for purpose’ after secret report

The Home Secretary vowed to overhaul the department, which she said had been ‘set up to fail’.

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on campus discontent: listen to those on the frontline

Editorial: The government’s funding plans, announced in this week’s white paper, won’t do much to alleviate a deepening crisis of morale among university staff

The Independent UK

Man deported to France under returns deal re-enters UK on small boat

It comes as the number of migrant arrivals in small boats in the UK has surpassed the total for the whole of 2024.

Evening Standard

Migrant deported to France under 'one in one out' deal RETURNS to UK on small boat

Migrant claims he was a victim of modern slavery at the hands of smugglers in northern France

The Guardian - UK

Man sent to France under ‘one in, one out’ scheme returns to UK on small boat

Exclusive: Asylum seeker says he made second crossing because he did not feel safe in France

Evening Standard

Third survivor of child sex abuse quits grooming gangs inquiry panel

The survivor said she was ‘deeply concerned that there still isn’t a genuine understanding of the grooming gangs scandal’.

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