Migrant children’s welfare is being sidelined in UK’s ‘brutal push to deport’

The hostile environment appears very much in operation as documents show the Home Office focusing on exclusions

Home Office officials have expressed concern that the welfare of children and families who have crossed the Channel to the UK is being compromised" by an intent to prosecute individuals for immigration offences, internal emails and documents reveal.

At least one senior safeguarding official has resigned over what they described as an example of the hostile environment still being used to target vulnerable new arrivals.