Yarl's Wood to house arrivals from small boats crossing Channel

Home Office repurposes women's immigration removal centre to cope with increase in arrivals

Yarl's Wood is no longer being used as a women's immigration removal centre and has been temporarily repurposed to house people who have arrived on small boats across the Channel to cope with the increase in arrivals, it has emerged.

The privately run detention centre in Bedfordshire has been dogged by controversies including hunger strikes, damning inspection reports and allegations of sexual abuse.