21 April 2025: Guardian (thank you once more Diane Taylor) Ten assaults a day on asylum seekers in Home Office care, figures reveal
Exclusive: There were 380 safeguarding referrals of victims of hate crimes from January 2023 to August 2024
The Home Office is recording an average of 10 assaults a day on asylum seekers in its care, according to internal government data, amid harsh government rhetoric on those crossing the Channel.
Figures reveal that there were 5,960 referrals of assaults upon asylum seekers while in the care of the Home Office between January 2023 and August 2024. There were also 380 referrals of victims of hate crimes to their internal safeguarding hub during this period.
The data, obtained using freedom of information (FoI) laws, shows that the Home Office received 11,547 reports that people in its care were victims of trafficking and 4,686 reports that they were victims of torture.
Ministers have introduced a series of harsh measures against people who arrive in the UK on dinghies, such as increasing forced removals back to their home countries, the deprivation of British citizenship, and exploring returning them to France or to Balkan countries.
Read more here: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/apr/21/assaults-on-asylum-seekers-in-home-office-care