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Recommendation 21
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Publish robust safeguarding policy for contingency accommodation, including needs-based risk assessments for vulnerable groups.
Recommendation
As part of the safeguarding review and action plan recommended above, the Home Office must publish a robust safeguarding policy in relation to the use of hotels and other facilities as contingency accommodation. This should include a requirement for a needs-based risk assessment to be carried out before any women, families, children, or LGBT people at risk of hate crime are housed in hotels and other types of contingency accommodation alongside single men. (Paragraph 134) Equality and the UK asylum process 75
Government Response
A response document is linked to this report, dated 19 September 2023. Response attribution to this conclusion has not been verified. Read the response document ↗