“Repeated failings at migrant hotel where asylum seeker killed himself exposed”

Staff at an asylum hotel where a resident killed himself were “not appropriately” trained to deal with vulnerable people, a coroner has ruled.

Home Office officials in charge of the hotel contract were also unaware that these crucial workers had been subcontracted out…

In the weeks before his death, he had told his son several times that he was afraid of being moved to the Bibby Stockholm barge…

…senior Home Office officials in charge of asylum accommodation, and the person in charge of managing the relevant hotels contract, had no knowledge about who was actually staffing the hotel…

Clearsprings Ready Homes, the private firm that holds the Home Office asylum accommodation contract for the south of England, had subcontracted the running of Mr Pereira Vargas’s hotel to …Crown Lodge Accommodation Limited…

This overall contract is valued at £700 million and is expected to rise to £7bn for the decade up to 2029…

Crown Lodge then outsourced the staffing of the hotel to a third company, Becker Hoffman Facilities Management Limited…

A spokesperson for Crown Lodge said: “We are deeply saddened by the incident that occurred…

Becker Hoffman has ceased trading and no longer provides Home Office accommodation…

Clearsprings declined to comment…