Cases of malnutrition among both children and adults have been confirmed in various different areas of England, including hotels in London and in the south-west. In some areas health professionals have started weighing children at the hotels who have become dangerously thin and in need of frequent monitoring.
The most concerning part…
So the food is probably not fit for human consumption, and there’s not enough food generally either.
Turning hotels into slums, why are the government allowed to set this stuff up? If businesses can’t be trusted to do the right thing then legislation has to be introduced to force them to.
There is legislation in this case. Food safety, including disclosure of allergens. It just needs to be applied; that’s the bit I can’t fathom, why hasn’t it?
All I can imagine is the police are overstretched and ignore it. Maybe there are other bodies that should deal with it? Do alum seekers have the same rights as members of the public stopping in the hotel under normal circumstances? I imagine that the government carefully didn’t refer to them as hotels in the agreements drawn up to avoid legal issues.
It may be because people have less empathy for foreigners, plus asylum seekers are in a precarious situation by definition. So they’re more likely to need assistance and less likely to receive it than the general population.
It’d be interesting to know what actual protections apply to them.
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Absolutely!