How the British Red Cross tried to blow the whistle about conditions inside crisis-hit migrant detention centres

The Manston immigration short-term holding facility, at the former Defence Fire Training and Development Centre in Thanet, Kent, in November 2022 - (PA)

The Home Office failed to act on grave warnings from the British Red Cross about an unfolding crisis at two immigration centres, despite employing them to support migrants at the sites and report back, newly released documents reveal.

The documents – that the Home Office took more than two years to release – raise questions about officials' handling of Western Jet Foil migrant processing centre in Dover and Manston centre in Kent in the autumn of 2022.