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Published in: Shine A LightWe must protect the lives of people with learning disabilityTime and time again, grieving families are left to fight for accountability and expose systemic failings in the care...
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Published in: Shine A LightHome Office fails Albanian child refugeesOne Saturday at a London drop-in for children fleeing crime gangs and blood feuds.
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Published in: Shine A LightThe racist killing of Altab Ali 40 years ago todayHammer attacks, punctured lungs, slashed faces... far-right groups inflicted a decade of violence on East London’s...
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Published in: Shine A LightAmber Rudd resigns, the anti-migrant machine works onHardline policies have failed in their stated aim of reducing immigration. Is their true purpose to impress...
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Published in: Shine A LightMothers and children unlawfully housed in Sheffield B&Bs for yearsWomen and young children routinely placed in shared hostels with vulnerable homeless men.
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Published in: Shine A LightUK migration rules make children homelessCouncils are forcing children into homelessness and destitution simply because of their parents’ migration status.
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Published in: Shine A LightTheresa May’s hostile immigration regime destroys another familyBritish migration policy forces working class families to choose between country and the people they love.
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Published in: Shine A Light'We’ve done you proud' — Families speak after NHS Trust fined £2million over patient deathsToday Southern Health was fined £2m over the “entirely preventable” deaths of 18-year-old Connor Sparrowhawk and...
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Published in: Shine A LightConnor Sparrowhawk: How one boy’s death in NHS care inspired a movement for justiceThe story of a UK campaign for truth and accountability. And respect for the lives of people who have learning...
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Published in: Shine A LightBudget 2017 offered little. We demand moreDay after day we witness the dangerous reality of austerity. #Budget2017 failed to alleviate the pain. But there is...
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Published in: Shine A LightAusterity stories you won’t hear about in today’s BudgetRhea needs a home. She is a full-time single mother of three living in destitution on the brink of homelessness. Yet...
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Published in: Shine A LightHow to start a housing movementRadical groups working on housing, racism, poverty, sex worker and migrant rights are springing up all over London....
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Published in: Shine A LightHousing activists stand up to dodgy landlords and council bulliesThe Grenfell tower fire forced a public debate on housing inequality in London. Tenants have long been at the mercy...
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Published in: Shine A LightHow housing activists are challenging town hall decisionsUsing direct action, housing activists challenge unfeeling and harsh local authority decisionmaking
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Published in: Shine A LightTwo dead boys, UK state secrecy and the long fight for transparency on restraintAn official manual governs the use of restraint on children in custody. It was published with 182 redactions....
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Published in: Shine A Light‘Please get me moved from here!’ Pregnant woman in G4S asylum housingRefugee and asylum seeking women are shockingly over-represented in the records of UK maternal deaths. Yet pregnant...
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Published in: Shine A LightHow lawyers fail migrants in the UKAccess to justice has diminished almost to vanishing point, leaving asylum seekers and irregular migrants at risk of...
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Published in: Shine A LightOn the lethal restraint of young black Londoner, Rashan CharlesThe police claimed that an officer intervened to prevent a young man from harming himself. Video evidence suggests a...
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Published in: Shine A LightRashman: Police watchdog to investigate lethal restraint of young black man in HackneyPolice claim officer “intervened” to “prevent the man from harming himself”. But video shows sustained restraint....
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Published in: Shine A LightResidents challenge council plans to demolish their homesCentral Hill housing estate in South London is threatened with demolition. Residents are challenging the...
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