The Latest Breaking News from Awaab Ishak

Michael Gove warns tens of thousands of homes unsafe in wake of Awaab Ishak’s death

The Housing Secretary stripped the association that rented the mould-ridden flat of £1 million of funding.

Evening Standard · Nov 24, 2022

Gove warns tens of thousands of homes unsafe in wake of Awaab Ishak’s death

The Housing Secretary stripped the association that rented the mould-ridden flat of £1 million of funding.

The Independent UK · Nov 24, 2022

Michael Gove admits ‘at least tens of thousands of UK homes are unsafe to live in’

Two-year-old Awaab Ishak died due to black mould in the flat he lived in with his parents in Rochdale

Evening Standard · Nov 24, 2022

Housing association that failed to treat mould in Awaab Ishak's home stripped of £1m government funding

Rochdale Boroughwide Housing (RBH) has come under intense criticism following the toddler's tragic death

Manchester Evening News · Nov 23, 2022

Photographer who captured slums of 60s fears current housing crisis will only get worse

With the country facing the biggest drop in living standards since 1956, photographer Nick Hedges warns deplorable scenes like he photographed decades ago could haunt us again, following the death of Awaab Ishak who lived in horrific conditions

Daily Mirror · Nov 23, 2022

Inside UK's social homes from hell - plagued with rats, mould and crumbling walls

Families across the UK have exposed the mould, damp and disrepair they've been forced to endure living in under social housing and council landlords

Daily Mirror · Nov 23, 2022

Awaab Ishak: Rochdale council bosses want a place on housing association board

Housing chief Coun Danny Meredith has written to the organisation saying he and council leader Neil Emmott want to help ‘deliver life-saving improvements’

Manchester Evening News · Nov 23, 2022

Awaab Ishak’s death shed light on a social housing scandal. Now we have a brief chance to fix it

A two-year-old died after exposure to mould in his house in Rochdale. We must ensure no other family suffers like this, says Christian Weaver of Garden Court North Chambers

The Guardian - UK · Nov 23, 2022

Landlords of flat which caused boy's death had over 100 mould complaints last year

Rochdale Borough Housing admitted it was wrong after it was slammed for appearing to try to blame Awaab Ishak'family for the mould

Daily Mirror · Nov 22, 2022

Petition calling for 'Awaab's law' in memory of little boy killed by mouldy flat tops 100,000 signatures

Launched by the Manchester Evening News and housing charity Shelter, Awaab's Law would compel housing associations not to allow any other child, or anyone else, to live in the uninhabitable conditions like the toddler suffered for so long

Manchester Evening News · Nov 22, 2022