Overview
- The full-time post at Heathrow Immigration Removal Centre offers £31,585 for 40 hours a week to deliver cutting, braiding and dyeing that reflects detainees’ cultural needs.
- A Home Office spokesman said the government does not directly fund such roles, while Mitie said the position is part of its contractual obligations and standard practice in secure settings.
- A Home Office source said detained people must be allowed regular haircuts as a legal requirement.
- The TaxPayers’ Alliance criticised the advert as an inappropriate use of public money for people facing removal from the UK.
- Similar roles advertised earlier in the year were withdrawn in August after a minister said not all positions were necessary.