Home Office barred charity over claims it encouraged asylum seeker ‘complaints’

Robert Jenrick banned Care4Calais from Napier barracks after suggestions it encouraged asylum seekers to talk to media

Robert Jenrick has barred a leading refugee charity from offering help to asylum seekers at a Home Office accommodation centre over claims the charity encouraged people to complain" and talk to journalists, it has emerged.

The order from the immigration minister was uncovered when Care4Calais made a freedom of information request to the Home Office after their teams were banned from the Napier barracks site in Kent. Earlier this year Jenrick ordered a reception centre for child migrants to paint over its cartoon murals.