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Home Office
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Mears CEO pay rises to over £800,000, while care workers earn £9.50 an hour
The chief executive officer of Mears Group – which delivers UK Government contacts including providing asylum accommodation in Scotland for the Home Office – took home £838,000 including bonuses last year.
Thousands held in immigration detention by Police Scotland
Over 3,000 people – including asylum seekers and trafficking survivors – have been held in Scottish police cells for up to 72 hours under immigration powers over the last five years.
Survivor of child torture fights deportation to Rwanda
A Syrian survivor of childhood torture and detention has become the second person in Scotland to fight Home Office plans to deport him to Rwanda.
More than £1bn awarded to private firms by councils
Scottish councils have awarded contracts worth more than £1bn to private companies since 2015, The Ferret can reveal.
FFS explains: Rwanda flights and European Court of Human Rights
Ferret Fact Service looks at how the European Court of Human Rights intervened to stop the first asylum seeker flight to Rwanda.
Family fleeing Iraq death threats housed in ‘filthy and infested’ Home Office flat
Afran opens a drawer and pulls out creams and tablets, prescribed to deal with the bites covering his children’s backs and stomachs – and his wife’s legs - in an angry, red rash.
Seeking safety: Rwanda deportation case to be heard in Scottish courts
A Syrian father of three, who fled for his life and was facing deportation by the Home Office to Rwanda, is now fighting for his right to claim asylum through the Scottish courts.
Missing trafficked children prompts claims of “child protection crisis”
Nearly 600 unaccompanied children arrived in Scotland over three years, including 88 who had been trafficked, and at least 11 young people have gone missing from care.
Asylum seeking children missed months of school while in overcrowded B&Bs
Asylum children in Scotland have spent months living in overcrowded B&B rooms with their families and struggled to access schooling.
