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Director for Asylum Accommodation Cheryl Avery speaks about the “successful” onboarding of 20 migrants onto the Bibby Stockholm barge. Ms Avery adds that “there have been some minor legal challenges” and that accommodation is “offered to all individuals on a no choice basis.” Report by Rowlandi. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00 We successfully on-boarded the first cohort today and there are 15 people on-board.
00:05 We have had a few challenges but this is part of an ongoing structured process to bring
00:10 a cohort of up to 500 people on-board.
00:14 There have been some challenges, some minor legal challenges and I can't go into the
00:16 detail of those but accommodation is offered to all individuals on a no-choice basis so
00:24 we are looking at how we manage that going forward.
00:27 We've adopted a standard policy that everybody will be on-board between three to nine months
00:31 while they go through their asylum process.
00:33 So we're bringing additional people on-board over the coming days and over the coming weeks
00:36 so we know that in the coming months that we will have people on-site up to the maximum
00:41 capacity.
00:42 So we're going to bring them on in a phased and controllable approach because security
00:47 and safety of the individuals is of paramount importance to us.

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