Home Office ordered to pay for hotel for family kept in unsafe accommodation

Woman and two children repeatedly complained about unsafe accommodation

A high court judge has ordered the Home Office to pay for a hotel for a vulnerable asylum seeker and her two young children, after twice placing them in unsafe accommodation over the past 10 months.

The woman and her two children aged eight and nine were placed in Home Office accommodation last August, but made repeated complaints about the conditions. Concerns were raised about the risk to the woman and her children of remaining in that accommodation by the children's school, social services, lawyers and charities.