Short-term Holding Facilities: Children

(asked on 13th October 2023) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to HM Chief Inspector of Prisons Report on an unannounced inspection of short-term holding facilities at Western Jet Foil, Manston and Kent Intake Unit, published on 6 June 2023, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that children are made to feel safe, supported and that their welfare and safeguarding needs are met at those facilities.


Answered by
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Robert Jenrick
This question was answered on 23rd October 2023

The Home Office’s responses to the Priority and Key Concerns set out in the HMIP report are covered in the Service Improvement Plan which is published on the HMIP website at Short-term holding facilities at Western Jet Foil, Manston and Kent Intake Unit (justiceinspectorates.gov.uk)

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