SchoolGate Standoff Over MoD Migrant Bases

SchoolGate Standoff Over MoD Migrant Bases

Large-scale asylum sites placed next to everyday civic life — schools, play areas, village high streets — turn an abstract national policy into a hyper-local reality, where safeguarding optics, transport capacity, and community trust must be engineered as carefully as beds and catering. At a Glance The UK is shifting asylum accommodation from hotels to large, managed sites — often former military bases — in order to add capacity and reduce cost…