Chagos children ‘stuck for years in unsafe lodgings’

Families of islanders housed in council-allocated accommodation deemed inappropriate by social servicesFamilies descended from islanders evicted from the Chagos Islands are being housed in council-allocated accommodation deemed by social services to be inappropriate for young children, the Observer has learned.The latest revelations prompted fresh calls for an independent investigation into the treatment of British Chagossians, forcibly removed by the UK in the 1960s and early 70s to allow the U