Child asylum seekers in UK forced to share hotel rooms with adults

Concerns raised over possible misclassification of children as adults as Home Office's new hotel maximisation' policy begins

Child asylum seekers are being forced to share hotel rooms with adults, as the Home Office's new hotel maximisation" programme begins doubling the capacity of refugee hotels by putting two strangers in roomsspaces that were previously single occupancy, a charity has warned.

The Refugee Council has warned that frequent misclassification of child refugees as adults at the UK border is exposing them to serious safeguarding risks, with the dangers heightened by the government's new drive to reduce the cost of hotels by introducing a room-sharing policy.