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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Peter Walker Deputy political editor

DARK SECRETS: Home office barred refugee charity for encouraging asylum seeker complaints | Rare Historical Photos

Robert Jenrick
Robert Jenrick directed that ‘Home Office is not to engage with Care4Calais either directly or indirectly’, an FoI request showed. Photograph: Tayfun Salcı/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock

Robert Jenrick has barred a leading refugee charity from offering help to asylum seekers at a Home Office accommodation centre over claims the charity encouraged people to “complain” and talk to journalists, it has emerged.

The order from the immigration minister was uncovered when Care4Calais made a freedom of information request to the Home Office after their teams were banned from the Napier barracks site in Kent. Earlier this year Jenrick ordered a reception centre for child migrants to paint over its cartoon murals.

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