Housing unit for asylum-seeking mothers 'threatens to breach human rights'

A visit to the complex in Glasgow found that the bedsits have no space for babies to play, crawl or stand.

A housing unit for asylum-seeking mothers and babies is so unsuitable that it’s breaching their human rights. That’s the damning conclusion of the Scottish Children’s Commissioner, in a new report laid before parliament this week.

A visit to the complex in Glasgow found that the bedsits have no space for babies to play, crawl or stand, and that cookers and heaters were dangerously close to cots. Campaigners have compared it to a prison. The operator, Mears Group, has promised to take action. Kaye Nicolson reports.

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