The UK’s Homes for Ukraine scheme has been “designed to fail” in order to limit numbers entering the country, it has been claimed.
A whistleblower who claims to be working on the initiative said he and his colleagues feel like they “don’t know what they’re doing”, according to reports.
It comes amid criticism over the numbers of Ukrainians so far allowed to come to the UK and claims that red tape has needlessly delayed the process.
Staff working on the helpline for the scheme – introduced after widespread fury over the UK government’s initial response to the Ukrainian refugee crisis – claim they received only three hours of training with no follow-up help, and said any complaint or suggestion to improve the system was met with ‘silence’.
Around 200,000 people in the UK registered their interest in hosting Ukrainian refugees through a government website after it launched two weeks ago will now be asked to sign up on a separate platform in order to be considered for a “match”.
“We don’t really know what we’re doing,” a person claiming to work for the private company responsible for processing documentation of Ukrainian refugees told the Observer. “The system is designed, it would appear, for people to fail. They want to keep the numbers down.
“Everything they do feels as if it is to do that. I’ve even had a barrister and lawyers on the phone saying they couldn’t understand the system.”
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