Former children's commissioner Anne Longfield has said that prejudice is a factor in how complaints from social housing tenants are treated.
This week an inquest into the death of Awaab Ishak prompted an outcry 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.
The hearing was told concerns were repeatedly raised to landlord Rochdale Boroughwide Housing (RBH) about mould in the flat on the town's Freehold estate.
