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The Latest Breaking News from the Home Office

Bibby Stockholm migrants won’t be back on barge ‘for weeks’ after Legionella scare

People moved to hotel told they will not be back on board for up to five weeks, as water system ‘flushed’ and retested

The Independent UK

Security firm extends contract for criticised Manston detention centre

MTC signs further deal with Home Office despite warnings asylum seekers may have faced ‘inhuman and degrading treatment’

The Guardian - UK

Six ex-Met officers charged with sending racist WhatsApp messages

Ex-police officers accused of sending grossly offensive communications after investigation

The Guardian - UK

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Thousands of refugees could face homelessness after Home Office policy change

Migrants and survivors of trafficking will have minimum of seven days to find alternative accommodation if they receive eviction notice

The Guardian - UK

Panic attacks and malnutrition: Afghan family on what life is like in UK

Exclusive: Two years on from the Taliban takeover, one of the first Afghan families to arrive in the UK by small boat remains in Home Office limbo, as Nicola Kelly reports

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak accused of having ‘no plan’ for Afghans in limbo two years after fall of Kabul

No adequate answers from government – as military and political leaders line up to demand PM honours ‘debt’ to brave Afghans who fought Taliban

The Independent UK

Minister vows to make Afghan resettlement schemes ‘work properly’

The schemes have been criticised as too slow and many Afghans have been in hotels since coming to the UK.

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Operation Warm Welcome for Afghans has not lived up to potential – think tank

More In Common said there had been failings in areas including housing and accommodation, funding and integration of Afghans into local communities.

The Independent UK

Bibby Stockholm: Home Office ‘should accept blame’ for delay in removing people

Mayor of Portland says ‘buck stops with Suella Braverman’ after it took three days to inform ministers about outbreak

The Guardian - UK

Legionella on the Bibby Stockholm barge: five questions for Home Office

Many issues remain to be resolved after asylum seekers were evacuated on Friday because of a potentially deadly bacteria

The Guardian - UK

Bibby Stockholm: Timeline of government chaos over controversial migrant barge

Row erupts over response to discovery of Legionella bacteria on barge as asylum seekers evacuated just days after boarding vessel

The Independent UK

Afghan scholars in UK fear they may be forced to return home

Government urged to grant current cohort of Afghans on Chevening scholarship programme indefinite leave to remain

The Guardian - UK

Home Office breaks silence on detained Stirling University student

THE Home Office has broken its silence on the case of a Stirling University student detained at Dungavel for allegedly breaching the terms of his…

The National (Scotland)

Priti Patel condemns plans for asylum seeker accommodation at former air base

The former home secretary claimed there had been an ‘alarming and staggering’ lack of clarity from her old department.

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Priti Patel blasts government’s ‘secretive’ five-year plan to house asylum seekers on RAF base

Suella Braverman used an ‘emergency’ planning bypass for a 12-month development at RAF Wethersfield, but leaked memo says it will be used for five years

The Guardian - UK

‘Secretive and evasive’: Patel criticises plan to house asylum seekers at Essex RAF base

Former home secretary demands answers from Suella Braverman about timeframe for government’s use of the site

The Independent UK

Lessons may be learned after Legionella detection on asylum seeker barge – No 10

The Government is standing by the use of barges to house migrants, amid a blame game about the response to the situation on the Bibby Stockholm.

The Guardian - UK

Government has no timetable for returning asylum seekers to the Bibby Stockholm barge – as it happened

Downing Street says it hopes to return people to the boat ‘as soon as possible’ but declines to give timeframe

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The Independent UK

Health Secretary defends action over Legionella-hit asylum seeker barge

Traces of Legionella were found on the Bibby Stockholm, leading to the removal of all the asylum seekers on board.

The Guardian - UK

Ministers ‘only told of Bibby Stockholm legionella three days after test results’

Health secretary says he does not know if Dorset council informed Home Office officials about presence on barge earlier

The Independent UK

Government officials planning for migrant crisis to last for ‘years’

Home Office memo for senior civil servants says government planning to use other sites to house asylum seekers

Evening Standard

Bibby Stockholm: Health secretary claims asylum seekers was cleared as soon as ministers knew of Legionella

Government facing questions after council claims officials told of bacteria four days before asylum claimants moved

The Independent UK

Afghan scholars studying in UK urge Government to grant them leave to remain

The current cohort of Afghan Chevening students say they are stuck in limbo and face the possibility of having to return home.

The Independent UK

Afghan refugee slams Home Office’s ‘policies of hostility’ after six migrants die in Channel tragedy

Gulwali Passarlay accuses Home Office of having ‘blood on its hands’

The Independent UK

Bibby Stockholm: Government workers were told about deadly legionella and still moved migrants onboard

Discovery led to eventual removal of 39 people on board on Friday

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