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UK: Children in asylum hotels suffering from malnutrition (web.archive.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The most concerning part...

I asked the chef in the hotel to tell me the ingredients in the food so I could make sure there was nothing my son is not allowed to eat in it. He refused to give me that information. When I asked him if he would give this food to his children he replied ‘no way’.

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

why are the government allowed to set this stuff up?

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It'd be interesting to know what actual protections apply to them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I just can’t get my head around how people allow this to happen. Across every part of the chain from the MPs who set these policies to the people in the hotel serving the “food”.

Not to mention the general public.

It’s just so sad on every level

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Does the general public in England not care about foreigners in general? Obviously its profit driven. Cutting costs increases profit, but usually the backlash from something like this would make it not worth it.

Would the average person in England read this article and feel a lack of empathy for them?