The spectre of the family of three failed asylum seekers who plunged to their deaths from the city’s infamous Red Row flats on Sunday will continue to haunt the sector for some time.

Widespread calls for an inquiry into the support the family received leading up to their suicides reflect longstanding concerns over the treatment of those denied asylum by the UK authorities. The sector must do all it can to improve care for this vulnerable group and guarantee last weekend’s tragic wake-up call was the last of its kind.

The task will be all the more difficult for Scottish landlords facing multi-million pound budget cuts, as our Scotland focus reveals. With their bullish housing minister promising to ‘modernise every aspect of housing strategy’ they must hold him to his word.

Caroline Thorpe

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