Warwickshire County Council

Asylum and Migration · drafted 2026-07-02 · accepted · 4 finding(s)

← council-level findings on this theme

16 Dec 2025No motion, resolution or formal position opposing asylum hotels / Home Office migrant accommodation was found in Warwickshire County Council's published minutes, decisions or agendas; the only related record is a full-Council written question (16 December 2025) from Cllr Sam Jones to Reform UK Leader Cllr George Finch, citing a Reform councillor at Epping Forest District Council who called a hotel holding asylum seekers a 'paedophile babysitting centre', to which the Leader's recorded response addressed only party conduct/racism and took no county position on asylum hotel accommodation itself. [1][2]

The same March 2026 panel confirmed Warwickshire was not currently supporting any other authority under the National Transfer Scheme and was operating below its own Government allocation (81 in care against an allocation of 119) — recorded as a factual status update in response to a question, not a resolution or executive decision to limit intake. [3][4]

Warwickshire's Corporate Parenting Panel was told in March 2026 that the council "remains part of the National Transfer Scheme," with the number of separated children in its care below its Government allocation, and no evidence was found of any decision to withdraw, cap or set conditions on participation. [5]

In January 2026 the Corporate Parenting Panel was told that a fall in Warwickshire's UASC caseload (from 111 to 92) was linked partly to "a temporary pause in National Transfer Scheme arrivals"; the minutes do not attribute this pause to a Warwickshire decision, vote or resolution — it is recorded as context for a caseload-reporting item. [6]

References (6)
  1. Minutes, 16 December 2025 “Reform UK suspended Cllr James Regan of Epping Forest District Council after he described a hotel holding asylum seekers as a”
  2. Minutes, 16 December 2025 “I can confirm that I do not subscribe to the views outlined in your question and that I will always condemn racism as it has no place in politics or wider society.”
  3. Document “The Government allocation for Warwickshire is 119; the authority currently has 81 in care.”
  4. Document “Following a question from the Chair, John Coleman confirmed that Warwickshire County Council is not currently supporting any other authority as part of the national transfer scheme.”
  5. Document “Warwickshire County Council remains part of the National Transfer Scheme, though numbers locally remain low compared with recent years.”
  6. Minutes “It was noted that the reduction is linked to changes in automatic age assessment dates and a temporary pause in National Transfer Scheme arrivals.”