{"id":83604,"date":"2026-01-16T07:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T07:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=83604"},"modified":"2026-01-16T07:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T07:28:11","slug":"manston-asylum-centre-was-overcrowded-squalid-and-insanitary-inquiry-hears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/16\/manston-asylum-centre-was-overcrowded-squalid-and-insanitary-inquiry-hears\/","title":{"rendered":"Manston asylum centre was &#8216;overcrowded, squalid and insanitary&#8217;, inquiry hears"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1FSMUB.img?w=534&amp;h=427&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Home Office officials have admitted they lost their grip on the situation at the Manston detention centre in Thanet, Kent. Photograph: Gareth Fuller\/PA\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A detention centre in Kent that processed the claims of asylum seekers who had arrived in the UK on small boats was \u201covercrowded, squalid and insanitary\u201d, a public inquiry has heard. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/manston-asylum-centre-was-overcrowded-squalid-and-insanitary-inquiry-hears\/ar-AA1Uipq7?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=6969e5856d0741078d50c2105d938b71&amp;ei=75\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A detention centre in Kent that processed the claims of asylum seekers who had arrived in the UK on small boats was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83604","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Manston-Kent.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83605,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83604\/revisions\/83605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}