🔴 Refugee children arriving in the UK are “looked after well”, a minister has insisted, after the government faced backlash for painting over a cartoon mural at an asylum centre
A Mickey Mouse mural, understood to be one of the artworks staff were told to paint over, at the Kent asylum unitRefugee children arriving in the UK are “looked after well” a minister has insisted after the government faced backlash for painting over a cartoon mural at an asylum centre., ordered staff at a asylum intake centre in Kent to paint over a mural picturing cartoon characters as it was deemed “too welcoming”.
Victoria Atkins, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, said when asked if she agreed with the order that it was important to “focus on the fundamentals”. “If there are children arriving in the United Kingdom via small boats, then as soon as they land in the UK they are looked after properly,” she told“The local authorities step in, they have their welfare their health needs and their schooling needs looked after. That is the fundamentals.”
Ms Atkins added that the Government’s priority was preventing people from “being enticed by criminal gangs to cross the Channel” as it is “such a dangerous journey.
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