Since posting this I have received many messages from people in similar positions - stuck in hotel quarantine after clear medical evidence given to the 'exemptions team' that they cannot safely be there. Can I encourage journalists/parliamentary committees to look at this issue?
https://twitter.com/AdamWagner1/status/1389941433210187776
This is the issue
https://twitter.com/AdamWagner1/status/1389946504857653252?s=20
I am concerned the 'exemptions team' are refusing many requests which they should not, in law, refuse - where there is compelling medical evidence that a person cannot safely be held in hotel quarantine because that would exacerbate a condition, they should never be refusing.
I have seen multiple instances of a copied and pasted refusal email
"the bar for exemption is incredibly high and we have to remain robust and consistent in our approach"
This sets too high a hurdle - and no point being consistent if you are being consistently unlawful!
"the bar for exemption is incredibly high and we have to remain robust and consistent in our approach"
This sets too high a hurdle - and no point being consistent if you are being consistently unlawful!
Those emails also include a line to the effect that the team is "confident" that the individual can be safely kept in hotel quarantine (detention) but with no specificity at all about how that can happen or why clear medical evidence has been rejected.
The @DHSCgovuk will be on the end of a load of false imprisonment claims if they do not change their approach (indeed, probably already are)
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