The Kidnapping of 200 Child Asylum Seekers
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Why isn't this leading the news bulletins? This news story is so shocking that when you hear the details, you'll find yourself asking why: 200 child asylum seekers are missing from hotels run by the Home Office. What on earth has happened to them? How could this be allowed to happen? And how has government policy made it possible?
We speak to the anti-trafficking social worker Lauren Starkey who has all of the details.
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| 0:00.0 | Lauren is a brilliant social worker and a campaigner |
| 0:02.4 | against trafficking. |
| 0:03.7 | How are you doing? |
| 0:05.2 | I'm all right, how are you doing? |
| 0:07.0 | Very, very well. |
| 0:07.9 | Well, look, this is a really, really disturbing |
| 0:11.0 | and horrifying story, which is about Child Assignancy |
| 0:15.2 | has been kidnapped from a home office hotel. |
| 0:17.8 | Can you just quickly just describe exactly |
| 0:19.7 | what's happened here? |
| 0:22.0 | So what's happened is Kent County Council, |
| 0:24.5 | alongside a couple of other councils at the time, |
| 0:26.7 | had enough unaccompanied children in their care |
| 0:30.2 | that they felt they couldn't take in anymore |
| 0:31.8 | and had to quickly care for them. |
| 0:33.4 | So they said we are refusing to take any more |
| 0:35.9 | unaccompanied minors into our care |
| 0:37.5 | and they battered that back to our home office |
| 0:39.5 | and said, this is your responsibility now. |
| 0:42.5 | The home office responded in a way |
| 0:44.6 | I don't think anyone could possibly have seen coming, |
| 0:46.8 | which was they contracted a bunch of hotels |
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