Migrants moved from houses to hotels were placed in danger, not safety.
"I could not stand by and not get involved in this work, partly because of the tragedies themselves but also because the events that prompted this Inquiry sit at the nexus of issues of race, deprivation, wellbeing, exclusion, government competence and human rights. Understanding these issues and a determination to work better at this nexus are, I believe, some of the key challenges and moral imperatives of our time." Baroness Helena Kennedy QC
In the absence of a public inquiry, this independent Commission of Inquiry (the Inquiry) seeks to make sense of the decisions that led up to these events and to provide recommendations to improve provision of asylum accommodation and support and to stop future tragedies occurring. This Inquiry is publishing in two parts. This report, Part One, is a summary of the existing body of evidence relating to these events and it reports on emerging themes and poses unanswered questions