SOAKED and shivering refugees, including children, were forced to wait for hours in the open air or in cramped containers after arriving to England in small boats, a new report has revealed.

An inspection of Tug Haven, where asylum seekers are first taken upon arrival, has found that hundreds of people were held in a facility resembling a “rubble-strewn building site.”

HM Inspectorate of Prisons’ damning report published today also found that children have been put in facilities with adult strangers, and in two cases were transferred to an adult detention centre.