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Asylum hotel won’t let mum cook for her sickle cell daughter

Hotel has refused charity’s requests, leaving 16-month-old Zarah with only baby food that she won’t eat

By Lauren Crosby Medlicott

/ 3 Aug 2023

Asylum hotel won’t let mum cook for her sickle cell daughter

Potential modern slavery victims sent packing as new UK borders act bites

Experts blame Suella Braverman's borders act as stats show record number of potential victims being turned away

By Lauren Crosby Medlicott

/ 26 May 2023

Potential modern slavery victims sent packing as new UK borders act bites

‘Night and day we cry’: A family’s year in an asylum seeker hotel

As a new report labels asylum accommodation ‘de-facto detention’, a mother details her family’s struggle

By Lauren Crosby Medlicott

/ 28 Mar 2023

‘Night and day we cry’: A family’s year in an asylum seeker hotel

What will the UK’s Illegal Migration Bill really do to trafficking survivors?

This legislation is going to make some traffickers very happy

By Lauren Crosby Medlicott

/ 28 Mar 2023

What will the UK’s Illegal Migration Bill really do to trafficking survivors?

Whistleblowers pay the price for speaking up. A new law could protect them

People who speak out about wrongdoing in the workplace can often face blacklisting, harassment and legal action. Proposed legislation aims to change that

By Lauren Crosby Medlicott

/ 23 Mar 2023

Whistleblowers pay the price for speaking up. A new law could protect them

The mental health crisis in women’s prisons

Experts slam the government’s £1.5m plan to create more jail places in England as prisoners’ self-harm rates soar

By Lauren Crosby Medlicott

/ 24 Feb 2023

The mental health crisis in women’s prisons

Airbnb host caught on camera threatening to ‘smack’ guest in face

The man accused two women renting his flat of being ‘prostitutes’ and said no one would believe their complaints

By Lauren Crosby Medlicott

/ 6 Jan 2023

‘It left a scar on me’: Locked up in the UK’s women-only immigration centre

A year after Derwentside detention centre opened, one woman reveals the impact that being held there had on her

By Lauren Crosby Medlicott

/ 14 Dec 2022

‘It left a scar on me’: Locked up in the UK’s women-only immigration centre

A crisis in a crisis: How charity workers are struggling to make ends meet

Those responsible for helping the UK’s most vulnerable say they are having to turn to food banks

By Lauren Crosby Medlicott

/ 12 Dec 2022

A crisis in a crisis: How charity workers are struggling to make ends meet

‘What else can we cut out?’ Parents struggle with crippling childcare fees

Parents in England tell openDemocracy of remortgaging homes or taking on second jobs to pay for rising childcare fees

By Lauren Crosby Medlicott

/ 6 Dec 2022

‘What else can we cut out?’ Parents struggle with crippling childcare fees

Exclusive: Crisis in legal aid system as asylum seekers unable to find lawyers

More than 40% of asylum seekers may be unable to access legal aid, despite the vast majority needing such support

By Lauren Crosby Medlicott

/ 23 Nov 2022

Exclusive: Crisis in legal aid system as asylum seekers unable to find lawyers

The UK’s Nationality and Borders Act penalises women. Here’s how

Kidnapped, imprisoned and raped – but new legislation means this asylum seeker fears she could be deported

By Lauren Crosby Medlicott

/ 1 Aug 2022

The UK’s Nationality and Borders Act penalises women. Here’s how