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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Jessica Murray

Vulnerable people in supported housing ‘victims of terrible crimes’, says report

Labour MP Preet Gill outside an exempt property in Birmingham
Birmingham Labour MP Preet Gill outside Saif Lodge, an exempt property in her constituency, which she successfully campaigned to be closed down last year. Photograph: Twitter/Preet Kaur Gill MP

England’s supported housing sector is a “complete mess” that is failing communities at the expense of the taxpayer and making residents “victims of terrible crimes at the hands of staff”, according to a scathing select committee report.

The report found loopholes had turned the sector into “a licence to print money” for unscrupulous providers and that there has been “a complete breakdown of the system, which calls for immediate action from government”.

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