PCS to speak to Home Office over plan to move civil servants to Rwanda to oversee asylum scheme
Home Office staff have been asked to apply for jobs in Rwanda to help process the asylum claims of migrants sent there from the UK, the i has revealed.
We took legal action against the UK Government over the Rwanda scheme, but have not been consulted on our members being expected to go to Rwanda to work.
We told the i we would raise issues with the Home Office about our members’ welfare if they travel to Rwanda, including where they would be living, how they would be managed and which jurisdiction they came under.
PCS General Secretary Fran Heathcote said: “This chaotic implementation of a chaotic policy is symptomatic of a chaotic government.
“We were not consulted about our members being expected to go to Rwanda to work. We’ll be raising issues with the Home Office about our members’ welfare if they travel to Rwanda, where they’ll be living, how they’re managed, who’s managing them, which jurisdiction do they come under – the UK or Rwanda?”
“It’s our members who have to implement the government’s unethical, inhumane and impractical Rwanda plan, yet they’ve been treated as an afterthought in the scramble to appease right-wing voters,” she added.