An ITV undercover documentary exposes that asylum seekers housed at a former military base in East Sussex are receiving insufficient welfare checks, raising concerns about the safety and legality of their placement. The film, titled Inside The Asylum Camp, follows an undercover reporter who secures a welfare officer role at Crowborough to capture footage of the conditions on site. The report suggests that lax screening processes may be allowing torture survivors and other vulnerable individuals to be placed in the camp without proper oversight. The documentary highlights the broader shift in government policy toward using mass accommodation sites instead of hotels for asylum seekers.
Undercover ITV report also shows inadequate welfare checks at ex-military base run by firm of asylum camp billionaire Graham KingAsylum seekers accommodated at a controversial military base in East Sussex have been subjected to inadequate welfare checks, and torture survivors may have been placed there unlawfully, a new undercover documentary for ITV has revealed.Mass accommodation sites are central to the government’s plan to end the use of hotels to house asylum seekers. For the documentary Inside The Asylum Camp, ITV’s undercover reporter got a job as a welfare officer at Crowborough and covertly filmed inside the former military training camp. The documentary claims that poor screening and welfare checks are having serious consequences for some of the asylum seekers. Continue reading...
