Home Office food provision leaving some asylum seekers malnourished – report

Research claims people have been hospitalised and children are ‘crying with hunger’ due to poor quality of food from contractors

Food provided to asylum seekers by Home Office contractors is of such poor quality that some people are ending up malnourished in hospital, a report has found.

The paper found that it was difficult or impossible to meet nutritional needs and some people ended up in hospital with nutrition-related conditions. Cases of malnutrition among children and diabetes among adults were identified.