Home Office urged to stop housing asylum seekers in barracks

Housing survivors of torture or other serious forms of violence in barracks harmful', all-party report says

A cross-party group of parliamentarians is calling on the government to end its use of controversial barracks accommodation for people seeking asylum, in a new report published on Thursday.

The report also recommends the scrapping of government plans to expand barracks-style accommodation for up to 8,000 asylum seekers. It refers to accommodation, including Napier barracks in Kent, which is currently being used to house hundreds of asylum seekers, as quasi-detention" due to visible security measures, surveillance, shared living quarters and isolation from the wider community.