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Insight into the housing with this exclusive Joseph Rowntree Foundation research on Sky News

House prices have doubled, rents have soared and evictions are on the rise. We speak to the mums trying to bring children up in emergency accommodation and go inside one council struggling to cope with a surge in demand.

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Sensitive journalism on a system that does not help those in need which is what our Welfare state was designed for

People at sea in a wholly unjust system

Councils must be business minded to build social housing but the system is against them

We need root and branch change

A new Sky News series 'Faultlines' covers in-depth and immersive reports exploring contemporary social challenges across the UK.

On this episode of the #Daily , Tom Cheshire talks to Nick Martin to uncover the scale of the housing problem in Hastings.

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People and politics correspondent Nick Martin has met the victims of a housing shortage in Hastings.

He spent a week inside the local council to understand why Britain is gripped by this crisis.

.Nick Martin met Eunice at the reception of Hastings Borough Council. She’s there to speak to housing officers.

She was issued a Section 21 - a ‘no-fault’ eviction notice - by her landlord because they wanted to sell.

We spent a week with housing officers in Hastings - a town that sums up Britain’s housing crisis. It’s a sobering watch. Produced by Fiona Mackie filmed snd edited by Andy Brown @skynews

Why are children are being referred to counsellors in community centers rather than wait years for NHS treatment? You’ve heard of food banks. Welcome to the ‘mental health bank’ stepping up in a crisis. Producer Fiona Mackie Cam Andy Brown youtu.be/1Isn10MvabY

I’ve been reporting on food banks for more than 20 years. But this is the first time I’ve ever been in a ‘mental health bank’ - where children come for help because waiting months or years for NHS treatment simply isn’t an option. #camhs #MentalHealthAwareness #mentalhealthbank

Important story here from Becky Johnson

Really honoured to be nominated for Specialist Journalist of the Year for our year-long coverage of the thousands of ‘ghost children’ missing from school. Couldn’t do it without Fiona Mackie Andy Brown and the brilliant @skynews teams. Good luck to all involved.

A homeless asylum seeker pitches a tent on housing estate - a story about immigration today and how the governments eagerness to speed up asylum claims is having disastrous knock on effects in local areas. youtu.be/CiBa7MqWc5g Prod: Fiona Mackie Pics: Andy Brown

A homeless asylum seeker pitches a tent on housing estate - a story about immigration today and how the governments eagerness to speed up asylum claims is having disastrous knock on effects in local areas. youtu.be/CiBa7MqWc5g Prod: Fiona Mackie Pics: Andy Brown

As the former Prime Minister Boris Johnson entered the building for the COVID inquiry today, he was met with protesters holding pictures of loved ones who died in the pandemic | People and politics correspondent Nick Martin

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In the light of Matt Hancock’s evidence to the Covid enquiry this week, please watch our documentary from May 2020 which looks at how Covid ripped through care homes and the political and policy failings that made it happen. Warning: Distressing scenes: news.sky.com/video/special-…

It was a bold claim that has haunted Matt Hancock ever since. The claim that care homes were protected at the beginning of the pandemic. Reduced to this moment + and how one care home owner reacted

‘GHOST CHILDREN’ latest. Government under increasing pressure as Labour wades in to crisis. news.sky.com/story/governme…