Unaccompanied asylum-seeking children have told how they were held at the government’s Manston processing centre for 19 days, forced to sleep sitting up due to lack of space, and developed scabies at the overrun site.
Asylum seekers should only be held at the site for 24 hours but the short-term facility has turned into a “humanitarian crisis on British soil” because the Home Office has failed to book appropriate hotel accommodation.
