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Private firm that left asylum seekers to sleep on street made £28m profit

People were left without “appropriate accommodation” at hotels managed by Clearsprings for the Home Office

Private firm that left asylum seekers to sleep on street made £28m profit
Asylum seekers were reportedly told to share single rooms in groups of four.
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A Home Office contractor that raked in £28m of profit last year is responsible for trying to cram asylum seekers into tiny hotel rooms without beds, openDemocracy can reveal.

Clearsprings also boasted in its annual accounts of “growth” in demand for its services due to soaring numbers of asylum seekers fleeing “political and economic turmoil”.

More than 70 people, including children, slept on the street in protest on Wednesday after two separate hotels run by Clearsprings in west and east London allegedly told them they would have to share single rooms – some without beds – between four people.