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Review criticises care at council's flagship hostel after musician's drug death Joe Black had been a victim of 'cuckooing'

www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/article/revi... This sadly resonates with my experience of the role Cuckooing can play in failed tenancies and contributing to MH issues. It also illustrates how hostels often have a negative impact on recovery & are not necessarily the places of safety they are set up as.

New census reveals ten times more women sleeping rough than Government counts | Change Grow Live Charities say faulty Government figures are due to gender-biased collection methods and call for changes to policy and practice in the new Women’s Rough Sleeping Census report.

New census reveals ten times more women sleeping rough than Government counts www.changegrowlive.org/news/womens-... @changegrowlive report

protest sign in st marco square venice saying 'if you can rent venice you can pay more tax'

Locals roll out the welcome mat for Bezos in Venice

Infographic with statistics that reveal that 63% of transport workers were assaulted in the last year, 92% face verbal abuse, 25% are physically attacked, 60% of incidents happen whilst lone working and that only one in three workers are satisfied with their employers response.

🚨 63% of public transport workers experienced violence at work last year.
And 85% were attacked more than once.
This is a crisis. It’s time for #ActionAgainstAssaults.
Read RMT's shocking new survey
issuu.com/rmtunion/doc...

Telegraph are obsessed with lying about EVs. Fires, sales figures, costs, horror stories of fictional scenarios, anything they can do to scare you into buying more rubbish harmful fossil fuel cars. It’s all patently false.
Here’s how they do it.

Should renters get compensation from their landlord when they're evicted?

The Welsh government has rejected a proposal for renters to receive two months of rent in compensation when they are evicted.

How Wales is showing the way for England on homelessness with one simple change

The Welsh government is introducing a new homelessness bill to end priority need and remove barriers for rough sleepers to be supported.

A yellow and orange bar chart on a green background, showing the 10 most overcrowded prisons in England and Wales. 1 Leeds 171% 2 Wandsworth 167% 3 Durham 167% 4 Swansea 164% 5 Exeter 158% 6 Preston 156% 7 Bedford 155% 8 Doncaster 154% 9 Altcourse 152% 10 Leicester 145%

On 28 April, Leeds prison had room for 641 men but was being asked to hold 1,097.

Wandsworth prison had 1,476 men crammed into 883 places.

Durham prison had 561 places for 937 men.

Here are the 10 most overcrowded prisons in England and Wales: howardleague.org/prisons-info...

Gangs hold such influence over jails ‘it keeps me awake at night’, says Timpson Minister says prison staff who assist organised criminals are being targeted by ‘beefed up’ corruption unit

Organised criminal gangs who “corrupt” staff and enforce drug debts with violence hold such a huge influence over jails across England and Wales that it “keeps me awake at night”, the prisons minister Lord Timpson has said.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Call to action on social determinants of health “Social injustice is killing people on a grand scale” was the rallying cry of the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH), published in 2008.1 It remains appropriate to the World Health...

New @who.int global report o social determinants of health equity is a much needed reminder that to improve health equity we must improve society, say @michaelmarmot.bsky.social and @jessjallen.bsky.social #AllforEquity www.bmj.com/content/389/...

#News flare Background of concrete Brutalist style flats. ‘Cuckooing is criminal exploitation where people are coerced into providing access to their home to criminals, who then use it as a base for their activity.’ Portrait of Dr Bainbridge in circle at bottom left. ‘Dr Laura Bainbridge is spearheading efforts to prevent county lines gangs from cuckooing vulnerable people.’

Following International Women’s Day on Saturday, we're spotlighting Dr Bainbridge’s crucial work in helping authorities tackle #cuckooing in society. Read more about her impactful research below:
tinyurl.com/ywam4a8h
#IWD2025 #AcademicSky #LawSky #Research

More than half of Brits think there are more people rough sleeping than facing hidden homelessness. 🏚️

The image of someone sleeping rough still dominates how people think about homelessness, new polling from the Centre for Homelessness Impact & Ipsos found. Read more. ⬇️
https://bit.ly/3X2r4SJ

Really worrying statistics for rough sleeping figures on the rise. Read more below 👇

#Homelessness #RoughSleeping

Do alcohol ‘sobriety tags’ reduce reoffending? - Institute of Alcohol Studies A new study has found that so-called 'sobriety tags' may reduce reoffending. However, study author Dr Lightowlers urges caution about tagging, arguing that tackling underlying health and social issues...

Do alcohol ‘sobriety tags’ reduce reoffending?
www.ias.org.uk?p=12018
Carly Lightowlers on Institute for Alcohol Studies

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‘Essential’: nearly 400 incarcerated firefighters deployed as LA battles wildfires The firefighters earn $5.80-$10.24 per day plus $1 an hour when responding to active emergencies, according to CDCR

There are 395 incarcerated firefighters helping combat the wildfires in LA right now. They earn up to $26.90 over a 24-hour shift.

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TV legend Danny Dyer has revealed on his podcast, Live and Let Dyers, that his experience selling copies of the Big Issue in London had been a “joy” – despite the public looking at him “like scum”.

Listen below. ⬇️
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