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It has operated all such accommodation in Wales since 2012, a contract which was valued at £119 million in 2016. [11] [2] The company currently has two ten-year contracts with the British government to operate accommodation for asylum seekers in Wales and the South of England until 2029, at a total cost of over £1 billion. [1]
Asylum seekers protesting against detention at Villawood Immigration Detention Centre on 22 April 2011. The entrance of the Woomera Immigration Reception and Processing Centre, taken in April 2003, following closure of the Centre. This is a list of current and former Australian immigration detention facilities.
The Directorate for Asylum Support Services (DASS) was established in November 1999 as a unit of the Department of Justice.It introduced a system of direct provision for asylum applicants, providing residential accommodation and ancillary services to asylum seekers while they await the outcome of their applications for asylum.
An Australian travel firm previously slammed for its handling of Covid quarantine hotels has been quietly handed a £1.6bn contract covering the UK’s new asylum accommodation ships, The ...
However, the Home Office says the use of hotels is a “short-term measure”, and asylum seekers usually lose access to accommodation support when their claim for asylum, and any subsequent ...
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By 4 June there had been at least 26 attempts at suicide or self-harm by men in the Lorengau camps and Port Moresby (in the hospital and accommodation for sick asylum seekers). [35] The PNG paramilitary police squad was deployed around one of the camps in an attempt to deter suicide and self-harm attempts.
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]