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Rats in the yard: 4 years of UK asylum housing by G4S

Today, yet again, a Parliamentary committee will hear how commercial landlords are failing asylum seeker tenants. And then what?

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Jean's back yard (John Grayson)

A few days ago I was chatting with Jean, the mother of three small children, in the back yard of her Sheffield home.

Jean pointed to rat poison boxes, the fence gnawed by rats. “My children cannot play here, they are frightened of the rats,” she said.