Potentially abusive men are using a UK scheme to host Ukrainian refugees - to contact vulnerable women, BBC News has learned.
In March, the government announced the scheme would allow anyone to host a family or individual, if they agreed to housing and criminal-records checks. The system is slightly different in Wales and Scotland.
Another man, in Manchester, had joined several Facebook groups and was offering a spare room to a string of young, single, Ukrainian women. A basic DBS check had raised no concerns about a man in his 50s offering to host a young Ukrainian woman, a source told BBC News That refugee had received a visa under the Homes for Ukraine scheme, but the squalid condition of the property suggests no-one from the local council appeared to have checked the host's accommodation.BBC News also learned of a Ukrainian who said she had been shown pictures of the bedrooms she and her two young children would be using. But on arrival, her entire family had been expected to sleep in one small reception room next to the kitchen, with no privacy.
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