Barking and Dagenham is a key election battleground in Labour’s campaign to see off the far right British National Party. Caroline Thorpe visits the east London borough to uncover housing’s role in the fight.
He was sacked by Hammersmith & Fulham Council and branded a ‘secret Nazi’ by a national newspaper. Speaking out for the first time since the scandal broke, former housing chief Gareth Mead tells Lydia Stockdale his side of the story.
As the £1.67 billion Supporting People programme absorbs the first round of spending cuts, can it continue to provide a soft landing for vulnerable households? Nick Duxbury analyses the results of an exclusive survey to find out.
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