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In January 2019, it was reported that Serco had lost the contract to provide housing to asylum seekers in Glasgow. [96] That same year, a Freedom of Information request by the Scottish Refugee Council showed that Serco had been charged nearly £3 million by the Home Office for repeatedly breaching its contract to house asylum seekers in Glasgow ...
It is understood that private company Serco was appointed by the Government to manage the Suites Hotel site and provide support to asylum seekers living there. ... The Government has been housing ...
Serco: August 2011: September 2013: 400: Brighton Army Camp, Pontville, Tasmania: Port Augusta Immigration Residential Housing [3] Closed: Medium: Serco: 2010: 2014: 64: Port Augusta, South Australia Port Hedland Immigration Reception and Processing Centre: Closed: Maximum: Australasian Correctional Management (G4S subsidiary) 1991: April 2003: ...
In September 2005 Manuel Bravo, an asylum seeker from Angola, hanged himself while in detention awaiting deportation with his 13-year-old son following a dawn raid at his home in Leeds. [30] In March 2014, 40-year-old Christine Case from Jamaica died at the centre from a massive pulmonary thrombo-embolism. The family were only told of her death ...
It was also not clear that housing asylum seekers in these large sites is any cheaper than housing them in hotels, the report found. Despite many millions being invested into making sites like ...
The average annual cost of housing and supporting an asylum seeker has risen by £24,000 per person in the past four years as the Home Office becomes increasingly reliant on more expensive hotel ...
In June 2013 a surge of asylum-seekers resulted in the detention facilities exceeding their designed capacity. Regular operating capacity is 1094 people, with a 'contingency capacity' of 2724. After the interception of four boats in six days carrying 350, the Immigration Department said there were 2960 "irregular maritime arrivals" being held. [36]
Lawyers representing the asylum seekers said after the hearing that their case alleged the draft secondary legislation was unlawful, amid “grave anticipated consequences” including ...