@matthewpearce.bsky.social
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Please do send stories to: matthew.pearce@guardian.co.uk
My story in the @theguardian.com
Two-thirds of English councils have not prosecuted a single landlord in past three years
Two-thirds of English councils have not prosecuted a single landlord in past three years
Exclusive: Councils prosecuted just 64 landlords despite receiving 300,000 complaints from tenants in unfit homes
Two-thirds of councils in England have not prosecuted a single landlord in the past three years, despite receiving 300,000 complaints from desperate tenants living in unfit homes.
From 2022 to 2024, nearly half of local authorities responsible for housing did not fine a landlord, while more than a third did not issue any formal action against people letting out homes unlawfully in the private rental sector. Continue reading...
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November 16, 2025 at 6:57 PM
My story in the @theguardian.com
NEW: "An impossible situation": Special educational needs spending deficits could bankrupt dozens of councils @patrickjbutler.bsky.social @raphaelboyd.bsky.social
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Ministers plan major changes to Send education in England
White paper being prepared as councils hope for relief from huge deficits in special educational needs budgets
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March 3, 2025 at 4:42 PM
NEW: "An impossible situation": Special educational needs spending deficits could bankrupt dozens of councils @patrickjbutler.bsky.social @raphaelboyd.bsky.social
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Sex workers and lawmakers have demanded that police forces are immediately stopped from issuing 'prostitute's cautions', which “trap people in the conditions that we stigmatise them and marginalise them for” 👇🏼
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Call for end to ‘draconian’ police cautions for sex workers that last until age of 100
A ‘prostitute’s caution’, unlike other cautions, does not require a person to admit an offence or agree to it
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December 8, 2024 at 12:51 PM
Sex workers and lawmakers have demanded that police forces are immediately stopped from issuing 'prostitute's cautions', which “trap people in the conditions that we stigmatise them and marginalise them for” 👇🏼
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
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My story in today’s Observer 👇🏼https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/nov/24/more-foster-carers-in-england-leaving-than-signing-up-says-ofsted-report?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
More foster carers in England leaving than signing up, says Ofsted report
Children’s campaigners say ‘national crisis’ adds to trauma for vulnerable young people, amid huge fall in numbers fostering
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November 24, 2024 at 3:16 PM
My story in today’s Observer 👇🏼https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/nov/24/more-foster-carers-in-england-leaving-than-signing-up-says-ofsted-report?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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There’s been quite an influx here overnight! The great @severincarrell.bsky.social has made a starter pack of Guardian journalists and columnists here go.bsky.app/B6CxPTX
November 13, 2024 at 6:06 AM
There’s been quite an influx here overnight! The great @severincarrell.bsky.social has made a starter pack of Guardian journalists and columnists here go.bsky.app/B6CxPTX