Mercy + Faye + Shireen + Sireena + Ethan + Angel + Sybil + Fikile + Roman + Melta + Alex + Lauren + Guido + Varian + ban ECT +
"Most days now I eat once a day. If there is not enough, I will have cereal or a slice of toast as my growing children are a priority. Last month they needed new coats that had to come first."
Angel + Sybil + Fikile + Roman + Melta +
Oh how we love our cheap strawberries – all year round ? Do they taste sweet ? - Wendy
The right to Land is a human right!
The garden as refuge: The restorative power of green spaces and nature
“There’s this misconception that anarchism means chaos
But the term means ‘without rulers.’
We don’t expect people to organize for us
We organize for ourselves.”
Jen Angel
STOP ELECTRO CONVULSIVE TREATMENT – PETITION – NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT !
We have made a petition – it has five supporters
The wording was not approved – so we have agreed amended wording – the UK petition is now published
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/633363
Electro convulsive treatment appears to be banned in some parts of Australia
https://www.madinamerica.com/2014/10/electro-convulsive-therapy-australian-children-banned/
There is an international petition which has got over 131 000 signatures
Our petition – original wording
Ban Electro convulsive treatment which is a sexist practice + causes great harm
FROM FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUESTS + OTHER SOURCES - EVIDENCE
https://e-voice.org.uk/friendship-group/
https://www.madinamerica.com/?s=electro+convulsive+treatment
https://www.madinamerica.com/2023/02/legal-protections-forced-ect/
Electro convulsive treatment is a human rights abuse + must stop now
Campaign Against ECT Gains Traction in UK
MPs call for ban on electric shocks as mental health treatment
Why are we stuck in hospital ?
Number of autistic people in mental health hospitals: latest data
'Barbaric': Hundreds with learning disabilities kept locked up for years
Problem linked to local councils + housing? - Wendy
Have your say – Barnes Hospital site
Dispatches : hospital undercover Are they safe?
https://www.channel4.com/programmes/hospital-undercover-are-they-safe-dispatches
NO THEY ARE NOT
We have published the latest data set showing human rights abuse within the Mental Health system – please see below + the website for further details
Revealed: Housing associations urged ministers to let them increase rents
Tax Haven Money in London Real Estate
community land trust – housing affordable
Healthy foundations: integrating housing as part of the mental health pathway
community powered NHS – animation
The real Tragedy of the Commons
We can reset the paradigm
We can move away from hyper-individualised accounts of people 'out for themselves' and work on creating the societal conditions for a community led approach
including Tolworth
A community-powered NHS: making prevention a reality
LBRUT should follow Hartlepool’s lead?
Camden Health + care citizen’s assembly
LBRUT should follow Camden’s lead?
Achieving food security through land reform
Learning from other countries – energy
NHS paying £2bn a year to private hospitals for mental health patients
We could do so much with that money – Wendy
Inquiry investigates deaths of 1,500 NHS mental health patients in Essex
Not just Essex? - Wendy
“Where we are born into privilege, we are charged with dismantling any myth of supremacy.
Where we are born into struggle, we are charged with reclaiming our dignity, joy and liberation.”
“Solidarity does not assume that our struggles are the same struggles, or that our pain is the same pain, or that our hope is for the same future.
Solidarity requires commitment, and work, as well as the recognition that even if we do not have the same feelings, or the same lives, or the same bodies, we do live on common ground”
Can randomly selected citizens govern better than elected officials
The law in 60 seconds – legal aid for inquests video
Hillsborough law – duty of candour - would this help with our Freedom of information requests
Cannabis, ketamine and speed to be decriminalised in London by Sadiq Khan
A shorter working week for Europe
Children imprisoned on remand – the stark reality of racial bias
Combatting Structural Racism and Classism in Psychiatry: An Interview with Helena Hansen
Suman Fernando’s book Institutional racism in psychiatry + clinical psychology
Mental Health Act reform: race and ethnic inequalities
How Western Psychology Can Rip Indigenous Families Apart: An Interview with Elisa Lacerda-Vandenborn
People deprived of liberty due to misapplication of Mental Health + Capacity Acts
As a result of the Bournewood case the Mental capacity act came into being
The mental capacity act
Assume capacity
Best interest
Least restrictive
People can make what others would consider unwise decisions
Supported decision making
Capacity can easily be assessed
Can someone make a decision
Can they communicate the decision (not necessarily verbally)
Can they remember the decision
-Wendy-
Restraint, segregation and seclusion review: progress report
Half of people with a learning disability and autistic people reluctant to provide feedback on care
The authority gap: why women still aren’t taken seriously
Women disproportionately affected by soaring Mental Health Act detentions
Pathologized Since Eve: Jessica Taylor on Women, Trauma, and “Sexy but Psycho”
Report Finds Monitoring of Electroshock Treatment Unsafe
New Study Finds ECT Ineffective for Reducing Suicide Risk
We can STOP ECT with lasting power of attorney
Provide Tapering Strips for People Who Want to Withdraw Safely from Psychotropic Drugs
NICE Guideline Update Acknowledges Severe Antidepressant Withdrawal
Withdraw antidepressants gradually, says NICE draft guidance
NHS statistics show continuing rise in antidepressant prescribing
Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions
How universal basic income can tackle anxiety + depression
Long-term antipsychotic use linked to breast cancer
Government review finds 10% of drugs dispensed in England are pointless
Sedated, How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis - James Davies +
CRACKED – why psychiatry is doing more harm than good
Coronavirus and depression in adults, Great Britain: January to March 2021
“Almost 4 in 10 adults earning less than £10,000 a year experienced depressive symptom compared with around 1 in 10 earning £50,000 or more”
The data shows what we know to be true: struggling with your mental health doesn’t happen in a vacuum.
Why not Diagnose Social Conditions Instead of Individual Symptoms
Council of Europe Releases Report to Promote Voluntary Mental Health Treatment
The WHO Calls for Radical Change in Global Mental Health
Emotional CPR: Heart-Centered Peer Support
How do we pay for a basic income
Welsh basic income pilot has been published
In a statement from Jane Hutt, Minister for Social Justice
The pilot will be targeted at care leavers
All young people leaving care that turn 18 over a 12-month period starting this summer will be invited to participate
That is expected to be about 500 people
Participants will receive the payments for 24 months starting from the month after their 18th birthday
A £1,600 a month basic income will be paid each month
Extending Welsh Universal basic income pilot to heavy industrial workers
VOTE FOR THIS EVEN IF NOT IN WALES
Twickenham repair cafe – 3rd Saturday of each month 10:30 to 13:30
BBC radio 4 Is psychiatry working?
well-being courses at Kingston Adult Education
Join Us | Crossroads Care Richmond & Kingston (crossroadscarerk.org)
Senior Peer Support Worker | Age UK Richmond | | CharityJob
Peer Support Worker | Age UK Richmond | | CharityJob
Charity Peer support worker jobs near Richmond, Greater London | CharityJob.co.uk
£1 Concession Tickets for Kew Gardens
As part of their new 10-year strategy, Kew Gardens is committed to ensuring that cost is not a barrier to accessing their gardens in both Kew and Wakehurst.
They have introduced a new admission price of £1 for anyone on Universal Credit, Pension Credit or Employment and Support Allowance (ESA).
Visitors just need to present proof of their benefit on arrival to be eligible for the new concessionary ticket
All-in-one-hub
SPEAR – St.Mungo – CDARS – We are with you – MIND – CAB - DWP
every Thursday 11am-1pm
Richmond library annex
quadrant road
Richmond
TW9 1DH
NEW LGBTQ+🌈 programme available for 11-15 year olds
How to connect with your community
Bird ID help: tits, finches and winter raptors
Will 2023 be the year of community-led repair?
How to ID Garden Birds by Sight and Sound
Spain and the Hispanic World' is now open
Your gardening update from the RHS
Epic wetlands, an avian superhighway and beak quiz
Have you seen these six signs of spring?
Soak up Spanish culture in our landmark exhibition
Your gardening update from the RHS
Your ultimate guide to nest boxes
Discover art from the American South
It’s here! Watch the Wild Isles trailer
New Deep Dive / Take Part in Totally Thames 2023 🌊🎉
Growing confidence through art and science
Souls Grown Deep like the Rivers
Entries are invited for the Arts Richmond Radio Plays Competition 2023 by 1 June
What's coming up in the Royal Parks
See 270,000 tulips bloom at RHS Garden Wisley
Water butts, wild lawns and working together
Your gardening update from the RHS
A Look Back At Our News & Content From 2016-2017 | Our Next Deep Dive
How to sow, grow and plant for nature
Coming soon: London Design Biennale
Celebrate birdsong this Dawn Chorus Day
Your Grow Your Own news for May
How to switch to a broadband social tariff
Get ready for the Summer Exhibition 2023
Community based organisations + community recommended organisations
Create, Debate and Imagine a different local democracy
CITIZENS: Why the key to fixing everything is all of us
Bring your ideas to Notwestminster 2023
F.E.E.L. - Friends of East End Loonies
A Caring Mind | A blog for carers of mental health
Poverty eradication organisations + self-expression
Tell Government Benefit sanctions do not work
The Community Power Act in full
Joseph Rowntree foundation (JRF)
Talking about homes: the foundation for a decent life
UK Poverty 2023: The essential guide to understanding poverty in the UK
A bleak winter for struggling households and more
including events
Stark rise in people living in very deep poverty
From disability to destitution
Social justice in a digital age
The Invidious Hand: Social justice in the age of control
Making a house a home: Why policy must focus on the ownership and distribution of housing
New project launch: Talking about housing
NICE Guideline Update Acknowledges Severe Antidepressant Withdrawal
Why the Chancellor shouldn't cut Universal Credit
Including Economic (in)justice explainer video – A redesigned economy
Why we need a new conversation about social security
A Minimum Income Standard for the United Kingdom in 2021
The biggest overnight cut to the basic rate of social security since the Second World War
People living in social housing claiming Universal Credit are struggling to afford the essentials
Why we must #KeepTheLifeline and what you can do to help
House prices see their biggest annual rise in decades, and rents are up too
New analysis exposes impact of planned Universal Credit cut
Rashford targets a win on Universal Credit
what's causing structural racism in housing
it's going to be a “very difficult winter” for low-income families
less than a week for the Government to #KeepTheLifeline
Biggest ever overnight cut to social security makes a mockery of levelling up
Invest in social housing for almost 1 million families paying private rents they can't afford
Millions of low-income households pulled under by arrears while living costs rise
A tale of two Budgets for low-income families
A just transition to net zero is necessary, and key for maintaining public support
Paving the way for good jobs through participatory co-design
Including Navigating power dynamics within participatory projects + Where next for social security after recent Universal Credit announcements
Winning hearts and minds for decent, affordable housing
Families furthest below the minimum income standard excluded from social security gains
Inflation is pushing people deeper into poverty
Including housing ideas
Elections Bill could disenfranchise millions of voters
600,000 people pulled into poverty by Spring Statement
JRF welcomes Chancellor's cost of living measures
Anxiety nation Economic insecurity and mental distress in 2020s Britain
Autumn Statement won't keep low-income households afloat as anxiety rises
Join JRF to support and grow economic and social futures that work for everyone
Going under and without: JRF's cost of living tracker, winter 2022/23
A framing toolkit: How to talk about homes
Reboot: building a housing market that works for all
JRF's Budget response, the importance of ill health to the UK's labour market and more
talking about homes:the foundation for a decent life
designing out the most severe forms of hardship in local areas
Register your interest for Next Frontiers in Funding for a priority invitation – 11 July
including events – Wendy
addressing poverty with lived experience (APLE)
Allow all people to work flexibly if they want to – PETITION
Sign the petition: We need an emergency budget that boosts Universal Credit now
Why the design of Universal Credit is driving the need for food banks
What drove Steve to use a food bank
“We are receiving an increasing number of referrals from people who are struggling after the unexpected happens, for example if someone’s car breaks down.
Living in a rural area such a Rutland means having a car is not a luxury, it's a necessity; so, you must pay out for the car to be fixed otherwise you can’t take the kids to school, or drive yourself to work, however this can mean there is just no money left for the food.
People are having to make very, very difficult decisions day in, day out – just to survive.
When people who are working full-time jobs still can't feed their families, it really highlights that income levels are not matching the rising cost of living.
It's not just price rises on fuel, or electricity and food but every which way you turn prices are going up, but if wages or benefits don’t increase accordingly how can people possibly be expected to cope”
Dee Burton – volunteer Rutland Foodbank
everyone should be able to afford the essentials – EMAIL MP
a letter to the Prime Minister
Food banks see busiest ever April to September
Autumn Statement: Benefits will increase, but April is too long to wait
Government debt drives people to food banks
Universal Credit doesn't add up
"Most days now I eat once a day. If there is not enough, I will have cereal or a slice of toast as my growing children are a priority. Last month they needed new coats that had to come first."
Paying your energy bills: help is at hand
A Marshall Plan for People and Planet Starts with Africa’s Green Recovery
Communities in Africa trek for weeks to survive drought
National Survivors User Network (NSUN)
NSUN is a great organisation with a great newsletter …
You can sign up to it here….
NSUN's strategic direction: redistributing power and resource in mental health
NSUN also has a directory page here
Extracts from the newsletters …
Listening space at Burton library 3rd + 5th Wednesday of the month
queer crip of colour critique reading group
Solidarity knows no border March – June
NSUN authors chapter in new report on alternative solutions to serious youth violence
NSUN statement on NHSE's failure to publish joint policy with StopSIM
we call on NHS England to publish the joint StopSIM policy in full immediately
Open letter on self-harm and the Online Safety Bill: A call for caution, nuance, and care
Justice Won't Be Found In The Coroner's Court
An article by Wren Aves via Psychiatry Is Driving Me Mad
Secret DWP reports link more deaths with systemic flaws
An article by John Pring via the Disability News Service
It’s not my sense of self that's unstable, it’s the world’s sense of me: the harms of the construct of ‘personality disorders’ towards transgender communities
An article by Hattie Porter PsyArXic Preprints
Inequality and suicide
A report via Samaritans and the Suicide Prevention Consortium
Red Therapy collective – may day rooms
trans + non-binary peer support group – 2-4 pm third Monday
Single sex spaces: trans and non-binary service users’ experiences of single sex wards in mental health settings in England
peer support group for Punjabi women in Leeds age 55+ - 11 am forth Monday of each month in person
contact
sikhelders@touchstonesupport.org.uk
Approaching the question "What was madness before psychiatry?"
An article by Sasha Durakov Warren via Of Unsound Mind
We Are Not Weird “Others”: Lived-Experience Perspectives of Genital and Breast Self-Harm
An article by Wren Aves via Psychiatry is Driving Me Mad
Epistemic injustice and co-production
An article by Maddie via Co-Production Collective
Your Right to Protest As A Disabled Person
An article via Liberty.
Healing Imaginations
A new digital library of healing imaginations
Book Review – The Muslim, State and Mind
A book review by Leila via the NSUN blog
“health is capitalism’s vulnerability”
An article by Megan Linton via briarpatch Magazine
A podcast by Voices Heard, Lives Empowered via Soundcloud
are women really more mentally ill than men? As a psychologist , I’m not so sure
An article by Sanah Ahsan via the Guardian
full-time feminist, part time madwoman ….and striker – when + how ?
An article by Marta Plaza via Pikara Magazine
how I should be cared for in a mental health hospital
Resources by the Restraint Reduction Network
we call on NHS England to publish the joint StopSIM policy in full immediately
Does my body count? Exploring the disordered eating experiences of the trans community
contact
Lesbian and gay adults’ experiences of completing Dialectical Behavioural Therapy
contact
amplify – understand – influence
surviving suicide peer to peer support art group
hand in hand peer travel buddy – mind Islington
A review by Colin Hambrook via Disability Arts Online
DWP’s link to suicide ‘should be examined by second inquest’, Court of Appeal is told
An article by John Pring via Disability News Service
Galop launches the UK’s first ever LGBT+ Rape and Sexual Abuse Helpline
Lothlorien Therapeutic Community
If you would like to review the book for NSUN just let NSUN know
Suicide & Self-Harm Research North-West's Annual Conference
16 June
contact
peter.taylor-2@manchester.ac.uk
caroline.v.clements@manchester.ac.uk
Stronger Things 2023 – Community Power: Making it happen – 23 May
Awareness-Raising Workshops for Communities
Death of a Customer: Deaths by Welfare Podcast
A podcast via Healing Justice Ldn.
Do you know of any groups, networks or individuals who do hospital visits for people on mental health wards?
If you know of anyone, or have any thoughts on this as an idea, please contact Wendy at
wmicklewright@yahoo.co.uk with details (including whether the people you know of are region-/hospital-specific).
Please also copy in
if you wish.
Many thanks
NHS trusts are still using harmful mental health practices, secret reviews show
report – funding grassroots mental health work
Hold The Huntercombe Group/Active Care Group accountable for the harm of patients - PETITION
Call for a Statutory Public Inquiry into Psychiatric Units Throughout the Whole of the UK - PETITION
Fighting for Justice - Families calling for a Statutory Public Inquiry into MH Services – PETITION
Disabled Peoples' Organisations
MH reform must go further : MPS + Peers are told
Article by John Pring via Disability News Service
support for user-led plan to replace universal credit .. + treat all claimants with respect
Article by John Pring via Disability News Service
Can stigma help to eradicate poverty?
An article by Dr China Mills via the Joseph Rowntree Foundation
An article by Hattie Porter, Jay Watts and Jee Smith via PsyArXiv Preprints
free our people now new campaign + network
Simone Aspis - Free Our People Now Project Manager on
simone.aspis@inclusionlondon.org.uk
or 07749 892 843
over the Ting initiative
Please contact Chuks Agu for dates/times of meetings - chuks1111@yahoo.com or 07360149283
Video series by Decolonising Economics on racial hierarchies, collective healing, disability justice, and economics of queerness
Report on draft mental health bill by peers and MPs ‘is seriously flawed’
An article by John Pring via Disability News Service
state violence + distress – the false separation between migrant justice + mental health
Blog by Rose Ziaei via NSUN
why health inequalities need to be addressed for the specific community
Blog by Sukhjeen Kaur via Shaping Our Lives
trauma-informed care left me more traumatised than ever
Blog by Wren Aves via Psychiatry is Driving Me Mad
the police failed my cousin – Gaia Pope – 5 years on, others like her are still at risk
Article by Marienna Pope-Weidemann via The Guardian
DWP dismisses 300 pages of evidence linking its actions with countless deaths
Article by John Pring via Disability News Service
help us document evidence of welfare – related death
Barriers to Mental Health Support for People of Colour and Migrants
Article by Micha Frazer-Carroll via NSUN
Mental Health and the Politics of Exhaustion in the UK Asylum Process
Blog post by Tianne Haggar via University of Oxford's Border Criminologies
New podcast – lived experience work: anti-racism & mental health
E158 Rianna Walcott: The Colour of Madness
Podcast by Surviving Society
What it feels like inside the work – politicised somatics and racial justice
An article by Alex Augustin via Healing Justice Ldn
Peer Chat with Vikki Price: Developing Peer Roles
A podcast episode via Making Recovery Real
The politics of LGBT+ suicide and suicide prevention in the UK: risk, responsibility and rhetoric
An article by Hazel Marzetti,Amy Chandler,Ana Jordan and Alexander Oaten via Taylor & Francis Online
Planetary Dysregulation, Capitalism, & Healthcare
An audio series via Urban Health Council
Alternatives to mental health crisis support: are we asking the right questions?
An article by Akiko Hart via the NSUN blog.
Community accountability peer support hub (CASH)
Are you in groups that are trying to move away from punishment as a way of dealing with problems in society
Do you think that it’s important for your group to deal with harms that happen to people within the group
It can feel easier to hope for a neat solution, in the form of a person or people, who can parachute into a situation and 'fix' it for us.
While this might be understandable — this stuff is hard — this treats community accountability like a service that can be provided for us rather than community-led and community-created processes or a set of shared values and practices that we build together.
Join us to talk about the impetus to “outsource” community accountability work, why this should be resisted, and how we all can integrate community accountability into our everyday organising.
MIND should include side effects in their research surveys - PETITION
alternative support resource list – Asylum
rainbow of promise: Poetry book
Call to action – catalyst 4 change
Unpicking the complex dynamics of racism, anti-Blackness and class within mental health services
Article by Mental Health Today via LinkedIn ft. Mary Sadid from NSUN
The Communication and Restraint Reduction Study
Blog by Colin King via NSUN
Why don’t they ask us The role of communities in levelling up – Institute for Community Studies
Provide Tapering Strips for People Who Want to Withdraw Safely from Psychotropic Drugs
NICE Guideline Update Acknowledges Severe Antidepressant Withdrawal
Petition to Scrap Care Charges Inclusion London
Coronavirus and depression in adults, Great Britain: January to March 2021
“Almost 4 in 10 adults earning less than £10,000 a year experienced depressive symptom compared with around 1 in 10 earning £50,000 or more”
The data shows what we know to be true: struggling with your mental health doesn’t happen in a vacuum.
The state of disability benefit assessments and the urgent need for reform - #peoplebefore process
Guidance on community mental health services: Promoting person-centred and rights-based approaches
World Health Organisation (WHO) – NSUN’s response
Lived Experience Practioners Revolution - New Website
universal credit: what needs to change to make it fit for children and families
Mental Health Act: Call for "unequivocal commitment " to improve access to advocacy
Disability Benefits Research 2021 – Survey
Update on FOI Requests: Who's Ballin' & Who's Stallin
To Solve Britain’s Mental Health Crisis, We Must Fundamentally Change Society
Article by Mark Brown via Novara Media – Listen to the piece here
Blog by Akiko hart via Charity so White
Graceful resolve: Attitudes for navigating a psychological crisis
Article by Amy Pollard via Centre for Mental Health
Blog by MiserySquid via Mad Covid
Podcast with Rai Waddingham via Mad Tunes Podcast
Disability strategy is unlawful, court confirms… and denies DWP permission to appeal
Article by John Pring via Disability News Service
Sometimes I want to be unreasonable
Blog via Mad Covid
Free advice – for upholding adults' Health and Care Act rights
+ Jobs + Funding + MUCH MUCH MORE
Build Back Fairer in Greater Manchester: Health Equity and Dignified Lives
Survivor Researcher Network (SRN)
Tell your MP to restore Disabled people’s rights
Protect Everyone Bill – EMAIL MP
Take Action and abolish the tax on disability – EMAIL MP
Government rule changes on social care cap hits poorest hardest – EMAIL MP
UNCRDP Westminster Government civil society shadow report sign up
URGENT – Email your MP to help avoid catastrophic care costs
Help Disabled people survive the cost of living crisis – write to your MP
Take action to stop energy companies from imposing prepayment meters on disabled people – EMAIL MP
latest including why participatory budgeting works
Could you write for Disney or the BBC?
Campaigns, conferences, co-production, and more
Conference speaker notes, copro resources and more
Including EMAIL MP
Diverse City guest blog, Disability History Month, + more
Tips for organising inclusive events
New poetry, film reviews, funding for artists
We are not hard to reach - new articles from our conference, and more
Read our guest author blog by Lorna Collins
All things involvement, co-production, and inclusion
Fantastic opportunities for creatives
Culture clash or the perfect match?
Free online workshops for writers - 5 June + 3 July
A briefing for Integrated Care System Leaders
Don't get angry, get politically active
including events
Z2K – fighting poverty – EMAIL MP
Z2K has caseworker to help people
We need your help
Nearly half of all people in poverty in the UK are either disabled themselves or live with someone who is disabled
EDM 19 disability benefits assessments – CONTACT MP
Homelessness + renter organisations
Awaab’s law - to prevent any more children dying from damp and mouldy social housing - PETITION
New guidance for housing management teams
Housing First England Newsletter – New Survey Alert
Housing First England Newsletter – Minister responds to funding request
Housing First England Newsletter – Join our call for a national Housing First programme
Housing First England Newsletter – Commissioning Housing First through RSI budgets
including setting out core milestones along someone’s Housing First journey
Housing First 2022 year-end update: A year of progress
Guidance on transferring Housing First providers
Housing First for Women: valuable lessons
Scotland's Housing First Pathfinder evaluation
Suicide Prevention and Postvention
Housing First for Youth (HF4Y) is a rights-based intervention for young people who are experiencing, or at risk of homelessness, adapted from the Housing First approach
It is already popular in Canada, Wales, Ireland and Scotland – where the Rock Trust is a good example
It has the potential to be extremely effective in England
We have published a new web page that collates important resources on this unique intervention, to support services or commissioners interested in or providing HF4Y
1 in 4 households were homeless or at risk of becoming homeless because of the loss of a private tenancy
3,405 households in the private rented sector were evicted by bailiffs between April and June – up 39% on the previous quarter
Here’s the statistics:
24% of private renters have had to borrow money to pay their rentpossible
18% have cut back on food or skipped meals to pay their rent
12% have cut back on heating their home to pay their rent
Our research shows the true scale of the problem.
That 3.2 million people from across the country have been forced to live in dangerous or unhealthy privately rented homes because they fear complaining will trigger a retaliatory eviction.
That's 39% of all private renters.
Too scared to complain for fear of losing their home, the effects of insecure tenancies and 'no-fault' Section 21 evictions hang over every renter's head
100,000 households in temporary homes
Amanda
The council moved Amanda and her children between 11 different temporary accommodations in the space of two months Many weren’t safe
Some didn’t have indoor locks or kitchens
And one was a 7 hour round trip just to get her son to school
Amanda was told if she didn’t move again and again then her and her family would lose their duty of care
It was an impossible situation
Amanda got in touch with Shelter and I saw first-hand how bad her family’s living conditions were
I offered practical advice and supported Amanda in launching a legal challenge against the council
Standing side by side with Amanda, we stood up for her family and won
The council finally offered her a permanent social home
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH: Demand better from renting – PETITION
Meet Krystalrose – she's fighting for change
Today, 1 in every 52 Londoners is living in temporary accommodation.
This is costing huge amounts of money and doesn’t provide the stability or security families need to thrive.
Let’s build a better future: Call on the government to build social housing - PETITION</