A series of reports published by the borders inspectorate also finds a lack of safeguarding checks on staff working in four hotels which housed dozens of migrant children between April 2022 and September last year.
The report by David Neal, the former chief inspector of borders and immigration, which was released alongside 12 others last week after months of delays, reveals that agency workers at the hotels had not undergone sufficient safeguarding checks through the government’s disclosure and barring service (DBS).
“The Home Office is reliant on the providers adhering to their contractual obligations and cannot categorically confirm that every staff member employed in the hotels has the required DBS clearance at any one time,” the report states.
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