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About this podcast
Interviews with people dealing with housing problems and welfare cuts. Dislike for those who let it all happen.
Kate Belgrave
Journalist and blogger
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Homepage photos courtesy of Latoya, the mother of the little boy with autism in the first episode.
Episodes
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- A third Hackney council attempt to evict a disabled child and his family! · 18 min · Season 7 Episode 1Does Hackney council's persecution of this disabled and autistic child and his family go on and on or what. This Friday - 18 September - Hackney council will make ANOTHER attempt…
- Council says putting disabled boy into temporary housing will teach him to deal with temporary housing · 16 min · Season 6 Episode 6Oh dear. We return to Hackney council - and the council's ongoing attempts to evict a disabled and autistic 8 year old boy and his family from their council home. As regular…
- Is Newham council evicting poor people into red alert summer heat? · 10 min · Season 6 Episode 5My source says Yes. The council says nothing. A whistleblower tells me that Newham council has a new policy and a team to forcefully moving homeless people in temporary housing…
- Green Hackney council will evict a disabled autistic boy with bailiffs next week. Greens were fighting the eviction before they won power · 11 min · Season 6 Episode 4In series 4 of the podcast, I covered Charity's story - which was that then-Labour Hackney council was trying to evict Charity and her disabled and autistic 8 year old boy with…
- Ex-services disabled man sleeps on a mat each night like a dog. Probably not good. · 12 min · Season 6 Episode 3We return to East Devon! - where Mr T, our disabled ex-services man, continues to live in non-adapted temporary housing. He has to crawl to the bathroom and sleeps on a mat…
- People ask chatgpt for help because councils and the DWP are useless · 15 min · Season 6 Episode 2This episode is a wee rant on the reasons why people upload their personal, medical and financial information into AI - people who are desperate for answers to serious housing…
- Disabled ex-services guy has to crawl to the toilet in temporary housing · 13 min · Season 6 Episode 1So much for disability adaptations. In this episode, I talk with Mr T, who has been in a wheelchair since a serious traffic accident. East Devon is his council. His council home…
- How the government and the DWP made PIP policy on the fly · 25 min · Season 5 Episode 1In this episode, I talk to renowned benefits journalist Chaminda Jayanetti. We talk about this Labour government's attempt to make cuts to the personal independence payment…
- Paediatric doctor: Why Hackney council's housing department is a danger to a disabled boy · 21 min · Season 4 Episode 8Today, we hear from Homerton Hospital paediatric doctor Hannah Caller. Hannah goes through the reasons why she made a safeguarding referral about the threat that Hackney council…
- Proving an autistic boy has meltdowns by prodding him into one · 18 min · Season 4 Episode 7We return to Hackney council and our ongoing story about the council's attempts to evict a disabled and autistic boy and his family from their council home. The council tried…
- Hackney council will evict a disabled child this Friday. This is why progressives hate Labour. · 16 min · Season 4 Episode 6Oh yes. Labour's very own Hackney council will evict a disabled and autistic 8 year old boy and his family from their council home this Friday, March 6 at 10am. Bailiffs will…
- Harassment by councils - when you're trying keep a disabled boy housed · 15 min · Season 4 Episode 5In this episode, we hear about the ways that councils can drive people in housing need to the brink. This episode is the 4th about a family with a disabled and autistic 8 year…
- Protecting your 8 year old autistic brother when your council evicts your family · 22 min · Season 4 Episode 4We return to our Hackney eviction story - where Hackney council tried last week to evict an 8 year old autistic and disabled boy and his family from their council home. Bailiffs…
- 1 day until Hackney council evicts a disabled child and his family from a council home · 15 min · Season 4 Episode 3What a title that was to write. This episode tells you exactly what it is like to try and stop a family from being evicted by bailiffs. This is a family that is being evicted by…
- Autistic and disabled child evicted from a council home - councils really don't have to do this · 15 min · Season 4 Episode 2In this episode, we speak with Kyla who will be evicted from her Hackney council home by bailiffs next week. Kyla has an 8-year-old autistic and disabled son. She's lived in the…
- Do too many people claim PIP for mental health problems? · 15 min · Season 4 Episode 1Don't think so. Mel claims the personal independence payment for mental health problems. In this episode, she explains how she got there and how one ongoing event in particular…
- No nationalism here: trashing benefit claimants is a global sport · 22 min · Season 3 Episode 4Last episode for this year! In this episode, we travel across our rising millennium seas to the home nation of New Zealand! We're having a starter look at the ways that NZ's…
- Mixing files up, losing sick notes, scanning blank pages: how the benefits system really works · 18 min · Season 3 Episode 3In this episode, we take another look at the benefits and public sector system. It is a total circus. I talk with Michelle Cardno who is a benefits lawyer at Fightback for…
- ANOTHER leaked email telling professionals NOT to write rehousing support letters for desperate families · 17 min · Season 3 Episode 2In this episode, we look at another extraordinary email that a professional has leaked to me. This one shows a Hackney council officer telling an education officer to stop…
- Council tells NHS to stop writing support letters for disabled children who desperately need rehousing · 14 min · Season 3 Episode 1In this episode, we look at an extraordinary email that a senior health professional just sent to me. The email says that a Hackney council officer met with health and medical…
