Children’s rights campaigners at Coram Children’s Legal Centre (CCLC), which initiated the judicial review claim on behalf of an asylum seeker and her five-year-old child, made the calls after the judge in the case said it exposed wider flaws in the system.
The Mexican family has been housed since June 2021 in various hotel rooms at a Best Western in Peckham, south London, that they successfully argued does not provide for the child’s medical and care needs.
He suffers from conditions including epileptic encephalopathy, experiences multiple seizures a day, and is fed by a tube.
The Home Office acknowledged that the accommodation was inadequate as the family’s claim stated but argued that it was “impossible” to comply with the mandatory order for accommodation as sought.
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