Asylum hotel bosses have been told they ‘have to house convicted foreign criminals’ while staff are trained on ‘unconscious bias’.

Hotel bosses have reportedly been instructed that they must acknowledge that some residents might be foreign nationals who have been ‘released on criminal bail’.

Despite this, staff at the hotels must complete training courses on ‘unconscious bias’ and ‘ethnic diversity and cultural awareness’.  

It comes amid increasing pressure on the government to close hotels across the country.  

Labour’s asylum policy was left in chaos last week after a judge ordered a controversial migrant hotel to shut.

The High Court ruling gives The Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex, just 24 days to close after it became the focus of violent protests.

The documents, reviewed by The Telegraph, also indicate that housing residents with ongoing criminal cases could lead to increased insurance costs for the hotel and its staff.

This includes a higher premium for any migrants who have been convicted of arson. 

The 117-page ‘statement of requirements’ document, obtained via a Freedom of Information request, is reportedly provided to contractors who are responsible for finding accommodation for asylum seekers on behalf of the Home Office.

The document allegedly describes the migrants as ‘service users’ throughout.  

In a section on general principles, it advises staff to treat residents with ‘compassion and respect’, noting that some migrants may be foreign nationals ‘released on criminal bail’.

It suggests complex cases requires specialist training for staff at the hotels.

Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK, told The Telegraph: ‘Finally, we’re starting to uncover the truth that has been concealed from us for so long. It’s no surprise that local residents are deeply concerned about the young men in these hotels. In my view, none of them should be allowed to freely move around the streets.’

‘The Government tries to hide the truth from us all the time, but piece by piece – as with this story – we are beginning to learn the full story, we are beginning to learn the full scale of the horror.’

A Home Office spokesperson said: ‘This guidance was produced under the previous government and reflects the conditions of the asylum estate as they stood in 2019.

‘The current Government is working in partnership with local authorities and communities to address legitimate concerns about the inherited asylum system including their safety, while successfully removing 5,200 foreign national offenders in its first year – a 14 per cent increase.’

Epping Forest District Council’s victory could open the floodgates to a series of similar legal actions against other migrant hotels across the country. Ministers scrambled to respond after an 11th-hour Home Office bid to block the action was thrown out.

Government lawyers warned the court that granting the injunction on a planning technicality ‘runs the risk of acting as an impetus for further violent protests’.

Some 32,000 migrants are in about 210 hotels, according to the Home Office, and discontent is building.

The injunction left Sir Keir Starmer in an even more woeful position after he scrapped the Tory government’s Rwanda asylum deal, in which illegal migrants would have been sent on a one-way ticket to East Africa.

The Prime Minister’s pledge to ‘smash the gangs’ was already in tatters, with more than 51,000 small-boat migrants having reached Britain since the election.

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has said that a new fast-track asylum appeals process will be introduced to speed up removing people with no right to be in the UK.

The Home Secretary told of how it was ‘completely unacceptable’ delays in the appeals process left failed asylum seekers in the system for years – in the face of burgeoning protests across the country over migrant hotels.

As measures have been put in place to speed up initial decisions, court delays over appeals are now thought to be the biggest cause of pressure in the asylum accommodation system.

Ministers are introducing a new 24-week deadline for the first-tier tribunal to determine asylum appeals by those receiving accommodation support and appeals by foreign offenders.

But they believe the current tribunal system, which covers a wide range of different cases, is still failing to ensure failed asylum seekers can be returned as swiftly as possible, nor can it accommodate a fast-track system for safe countries.

The Government will set out further details of plans for asylum system reforms in the autumn, drawing on lessons from other European countries which have faster appeals systems – including some which run independent appeals bodies similar to the one being proposed.

The Home Secretary said the overhaul would result in a system which is ‘swift, fair and independent, with high standards in place’.

Ms Cooper said: ‘We inherited an asylum system in complete chaos with a soaring backlog of asylum cases and a broken appeals system with thousands of people in the system for years on end.

‘That is why we are taking practical steps to fix the foundations and restore control and order to the system.

‘We are determined to substantially reduce the number of people in the asylum system as part of our plan to end asylum hotels.

‘Already since the election we have reduced the backlog of people waiting for initial decisions by 24 per cent and increased failed asylum returns by 30%.

‘But we cannot carry on with these completely unacceptable delays in appeals as a result of the system we have inherited which mean that failed asylum seekers stay in the system for years on end at huge cost to the taxpayer.’

However, Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said the proposals ‘go nowhere near far enough’ as ‘the underlying rights, which allows most illegal immigrants to stay here, are not changing’.

He added: ‘Simply waving illegal immigrants through even faster to full housing and welfare rights will not fix the problem.’

Reform’s deputy leader Richard Tice said: ‘The Government’s proposed changes are just tinkering at the edges and will do nothing to solve the hotel crisis.

‘What they should be doing is to follow Reform’s plan: leave the ECHR, abolish the Human Rights Act, immediately detain and deport anyone who is here illegally.’

The changes are expected to be set out when MPs return to Parliament in just over a week.

Mass protests have exploded outside migrant hotels across the country this weekend as furious families gathered in major cities including Birmingham and London.

A group of protesters, some draped in the St George’s Cross, gathered outside the Castle Bromwich Holiday Inn in Birmingham on Sunday, while in London police stood guard at the Britannia Hotel in Canary Wharf.

In Norwich, demonstrators gathered outside the Brook Hotel, draping themselves in Union and St George’s flags.

Hotels across Dudley, Epping, London, Manchester and Norwich have also braced for protests as communities seek to replicate the ruling for The Bell Hotel which, pending an appeal, must be closed within weeks. 

It comes after more than 30 protests under the Abolish Asylum system were held in towns and cities across the UK on Saturday. 

These included Bristol, Exeter, Tamworth, Cannock, Nuneaton, Liverpool, Wakefield, Newcastle, Horley, Canary Wharf, Aberdeen and Perth in Scotland, and Mold in Wales.

A separate batch of protests were also organised by Stand Up to Racism in Bristol, Cannock, Leicester, Liverpool, Newcastle, Wakefield, Horley and Long Eaton in Derbyshire.

At least 15 people were reportedly arrested in Bristol, Liverpool and Horley, The Times reported. 

On Sunday afternoon, protesters in Birmingham were seen peering through the doors of the hotel and one was seen scaling a ladder to hang a flag on a lamp post by the Holiday Inn sign.

At Canary Wharf, police officers stood at the entrance to the Britannia Hotel while security guards could also be seen standing behind full length barriers that blocked off the entrance way.

One woman was seen holding a sign that read: ‘Enough is Enough. Protect our women and girls.’

About 20 protesters stood quietly on the other side of the road with Union flags propped up against a fence.

A woman carried a homemade banner which read: ‘Tower Hamlets council house homeless Brits first’ which had a St George’s flag drawn on it.

Another banner read: ‘Enough is enough protect our women and girls.’

The hotel, which is being used to accommodate hundreds of migrants, has often become the centre of focus for a group of female anti-migrant protesters dubbed the ‘Pink Ladies’.

The group, a faction within the wider anti-migrant movement, say they are seeking to highlight the perceived danger to women and girls by those seeking asylum. 

In Stevenage, a small number of protesters were seen gathered outside of the Ibis Hotel in the town centre on Sunday.

The hotel is housing hundreds of asylum seekers and has done so since September 2022.

A group of protesters, numbering no more than 50, gathered to ‘peacefully protest’ for ‘our children’ and for ‘our future’, they claimed.

Three people sipping cans of beer and wearing balaclavas jumped onto the hotel ledging and blared music from a speaker, with five England flags attached to the hotel room windows.

Meanwhile, others protesters draped in England flags surrounded the hotel.

Police dispersed the small crowds shortly after 2pm as the drunken trio refused to jump down.

Earlier this week, Stevenage Borough Council said it was ‘actively investigating’ alleged breaches of planning control in asylum seeker hotels in the town.