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‘Fake bailiffs’ from private security companies carry out illegal evictions
Criminal landlords are using uniformed security guards to force out tenants, says the charity Safer Renting
Tom Wall
04, Jun, 2023 @7:00 AM
Outsourced care means more children being moved further away – study
Oxford University research reveals 17,000 out-of-area placements in England can be attributed to the corporate takeover of care
Tom Wall
29, May, 2023 @6:00 AM
UK care home firm under fire as children forced to move hundreds of miles
Private provider criticised for uprooting more than 60 vulnerable children, with some transferred from south-east England to Scotland
Tom Wall
21, May, 2023 @8:00 AM
‘I was given days to find myself a place to live’: autistic teenager on care home eviction
Callum McDonald describes how he and others coped when made to leave their settled homes by the private, profit-making owner
Tom Wall
14, May, 2023 @9:00 AM
Babies are dying because of NHS failings, poverty and inequality, charities warn
Maternity services need urgent improvement and investment to meet government target of halving stillbirths and neonatal deaths
Tom Wall
14, May, 2023 @9:00 AM
On-demand UK grocery firms plan to switch riders back to gig contracts
Couriers will be moved to cheaper insecure deals after government fails on promise to bring in new employment bill
Tom Wall
07, May, 2023 @8:00 AM
‘Heartbreaking’: private care homes accused of failing UK children due to closures
Staff warn vulnerable children may be harmed as they struggle to find placements after 28 homes given deadline to shut by chain
Tom Wall
30, Apr, 2023 @6:00 AM
Police in England and Wales less likely to face discipline under new complaints system
Figures suggest fewer misconduct allegations are being referred than under previously discredited regime
Tom Wall
11, Apr, 2023 @5:00 AM
Thousands of homeless people arrested under archaic Vagrancy Act
Campaigners’ anger as 1,173 held despite ministers’ pledge to scrap legislation
Tom Wall
02, Apr, 2023 @8:00 AM
England’s tallest wind turbine prepares to rise against the odds
Renewable project on edge of Bristol has overcome planning hurdles and will empower local housing estate
Tom Wall
09, Feb, 2023 @5:30 PM
Greenpeace protesters board Shell platform bound for Shetland
Four activists board 52,000-tonne vessel north of Canary Islands and demand company ‘Stop drilling – start paying’
Tom Wall
31, Jan, 2023 @3:01 PM
Thousands march across Dartmoor to demand right to wild camp
More than 3,000 people protest on estate of Alexander Darwall after his court victory ends right to wild camp in England
Tom Wall
21, Jan, 2023 @9:46 PM
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