‘Chaotic’ UK response criticised as Afghan babies wait for milk and donations turned away

Volunteers operating blind' about refugees' needs, while hotels left with no staff to distribute aid

The government's response towards families evacuated from Afghanistan to Britain has been chaotic and uncoordinated", hampering volunteers' efforts to help, charities have said.

One hotel where 50 babies were in quarantine with their families after fleeing the Taliban had no formula milk, they said. In other hotels, supplies of clothes, toiletries and nappies donated by the public were turned away by managers who had no staff to distribute them.