Cases of malnutrition among both children and adults have been confirmed in various different areas of England, including hotels in London and in the south-west. In some areas health professionals have started weighing children at the hotels who have become dangerously thin and in need of frequent monitoring.
It may be because people have less empathy for foreigners, plus asylum seekers are in a precarious situation by definition. So they’re more likely to need assistance and less likely to receive it than the general population.
It’d be interesting to know what actual protections apply to them.