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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Luke O'Reilly

Housing complaints ignored due to prejudice, says ex-children’s commissioner

PA Media

Former children’s commissioner Anne Longfield has said that prejudice is a factor in how complaints from social housing tenants are treated.

An inquest into the death of Awaab Ishak prompted an outcry this week after it found he died in December 2020 from a respiratory condition caused by mould in the one-bedroom housing association flat where he lived with his parents, Faisal Abdullah and Aisha Amin, in Rochdale, Greater Manchester.

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