UN criticises UK asylum system - including law breaking and detaining torture victims
A Home Office spokesman said:"This report is based on an audit that took place in 2021 and early 2022. Since then, significant improvements have been made to the processing of small boats arrivals.[processing centre] is no longer in use and specialist facilities have been made available to accommodate young people, including unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.
"Our staff are working relentlessly to safely register and screen unprecedented numbers of migrants arriving in the UK illegally.Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said:"The UNHCR report exposes a host of failures in Home Office initial asylum processing that are holding up the system and contributing to the damaging delays. Yet Conservative ministers have still rejected policies such as fast-track triage for clearly unfounded cases which Labour has demanded for months.
"The home secretary needs to stop posturing and start fixing the asylum system she and her party have broken. Labour has set out plans for a cross-border police unit, fast-tracking to clear the backlog and a proper deal with France on safe returns."
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