{"id":35656,"date":"2021-08-22T02:05:11","date_gmt":"2021-08-21T17:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/21\/no-shoes-spare-clothes-or-money-traumatised-afghan-children-stranded-for-weeks-in-hotels"},"modified":"2021-08-22T02:05:11","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T17:05:11","slug":"afghan-child-refugees-left-without-support-in-home-office-hotels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35656","title":{"rendered":"Afghan child refugees left without support in Home Office hotels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charities accuse the government of failing to meet young asylum seekers\u2019 basic needs, despite care pledge <\/p>\n<p>Child refugees from Afghanistan are being held by the Home Office in hotels for weeks on end without shoes, spare clothes, money or access to healthcare, embarrassing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/17\/uk-to-take-20000-afghan-refugees-over-five-years-under-resettlement-plan\" title=\"\">home secretary, who promised to help people fleeing the Taliban<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One unaccompanied Afghan minor who arrived in the UK a month ago said they had also been given no legal advice or interpreter, their asylum claim had yet to be processed and they had no idea where they were or even where to find the nearest mosque.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/21\/no-shoes-spare-clothes-or-money-traumatised-afghan-children-stranded-for-weeks-in-hotels\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charities accuse the government of failing to meet young asylum seekers\u2019 basic needs, despite care pledge Child refugees from Afghanistan are being held by the Home Office in hotels for weeks on end without shoes, spare clothes, money or access to heal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,2190,245,4,494,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-charities","category-children","category-politics","category-refugees","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35657,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35656\/revisions\/35657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}