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A protest is being staged in Canning Town to raise awareness of empty homes.
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A protest is being staged to raise awareness of empty homes, overcrowded housing and temporary accommodation.
Campaigners from East London People Before Profit (ELPBP) have organised the action to take place in Canning Town on Saturday, April 17.
Protesters are expected to raise banners outside developments with no social housing, empty council and housing association homes as well as residential buildings left vacant for a long time.
ELPBP member Miriam Scharf said: We think this action is necessary in Newham. There are 30,000 on the council waiting list.
A DOCTOR at the fourth session of the People’s Covid Inquiry condemned the government’s “complete dereliction of duty” during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The inquiry, organised by Keep Our NHS Public, on Wednesday evening examined why the impact on disabled people and those in social care was so significant.
Palliative care medicine consultant Rachel Clarke said: “Care homes had a completely different supply chain and hospices were categorised as care homes. We were only issued with a two-day supply of masks … there was a really widespread, really invisible problem of a lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) in non-hospital areas.
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The care regulator has admitted failing to track vital details about scores of care homes that are being allowed to accept patients infected with COVID-19, while older and disabled people not yet infected occupy other parts of the same buildings.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has so far approved more than 150 care homes and other care facilities to be “designated settings” that accept recovering hospital patients who are still infected with coronavirus.
But analysis by Disability News Service (DNS) of a sample of the first 117 designated settings to have been approved shows most of them are existing care homes where part of a building has been assigned to receive patients recovering from, and still infected with, COVID-19, while other parts of the building continue to be occupied by older and disabled service-users not yet infected with the virus.