Independent inquiry into Scottish lockdown asylum seeker treatment

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Image source, PA Media Image caption, Asylum seekers had been moved into the Park Inn in response to the coronavirus pandemic An independent inquiry is to be held to look into the treatment of asylum seekers in Scotland during the Covid-19 lockdown in 2020.
Image source, Getty Images Image caption, Six people were stabbed at the Glasgow hotel where asylum seekers were being held during the first lockdown She said at a time everyone was isolated there should have been "proper support and that didn't happen."
"The question is were there flaws in the care of those people and whether very bad decisions were made about the housing and was there any question of monetary benefit in the minds of those who made the decisions to move people to those hotels?" She added that "a full public inquiry would have been the proper thing to happen" but requests to the Home Office for a statutory inquiry had not resulted in action.
Image caption, Baroness Helena Kennedy will lead an independent inquiry into the A Home Office spokesperson said: "Since this horrific incident we have undertaken a number of significant changes to keep asylum seekers safe, including how we, our contractors and charities spot vulnerable individuals and provide them with wrap-around support and appropriate accommodation.