Inquiry Call Over Treatment of Glasgow Asylum Seekers
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Published: 19/02/2016 |
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The Scottish Refugee Council has called for an investigation into allegations about the way asylum seekers are treated and housed in Glasgow. It follows claims in The Times newspaper that refugees have been kept in dirty and dangerous homes and have felt threatened and humiliated. The allegations include the case of a mother and baby housed in a cockroach-infested property in Glasgow.
The Home Office outsources the contract for asylum accommodation in Glasgow to multi-national services company Serco and its sub-contractor, the property management firm Orchard & Shipman (O&S). A number of allegations have been made in The Times against O&S, including those in relation to the behaviour of its employees and the quality of the housing it has provided. The claims made in the newspaper included O&S staff spraying air freshners at asylum seekers, while laughing and pinching their noses, and an allegation of a man being housed in a property with blood-spattered walls and no lock on the front door.
Read more: BBC News, 16/02/2016
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