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NEW 🚨 Permanent facial recognition cameras will be installed in Oxford Street by December. Thousands of Christmas shoppers will have their faces scanned by this unregulated surveillance technology without being given a choice. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

🚨 Police station #LawAndPractice update 🚨 In this month’s #LegalAction Ed Cape (@uwebristolpress.bsky.social), Matthew Hardcastle, and Sandra Paul (Kingsley Napley) round up the latest important #PoliceStation reports, research and cases. Read in full ➡️ hi.switchy.io/10qz_

Free winter health drop-in tomorrow (Fri) for anyone experiencing #homelessness or in hostels/temp accom: ​📍 Solidarity Hub (48 Seven Sisters Rd, N7 6AA) ⏰ 12–4pm ✅ Free flu jabs ✅ Stop-smoking advice ​No ID needed Most won't see this online—please tell people you meet!

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🕯️The Museum of Homelessness will hold its annual national vigil on 15 October 2026 to remember people who have died while homeless across the UK. 🕯️ Read the full article for further details: hi.switchy.io/113T7 #Homelessness #HousingLaw #LegalAction

MPs Andrew Mitchell and Jess Phillips have submitted an amendment to a bill being debated in Parliament next week to stop immunity applying to police inc in cases of fabricated evidence, dishonesty, or reckless disclosure of confidential information relating to victims www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🚨BREAKING: The government's own statistics show there was a *record level of terrorism arrests* in the year leading up to June this year. The vast majority of the enormous increase in terrorism arrests are of grandparents, teenagers and everyone in between for peacefully holding placards.

Uncovered by Liberty Investigates: Preston council has more than 100 cameras with facial recognition enabled - and the council didn't consult the public before introducing the surveillance tech www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

📢JOB ALERT! Centre for Women's Justice is looking to recruit Rape Survivors Independent Legal Advice Paralegals. Hybrid – home and CWJ’s London office. Permanent. Full time and part time considered (min. 3 days/22.5 hours pw). Closing date: 9am on October 26.

PC Stephen Smith and PC Rachel Comotto, police officers who Tasered a 92-year-old amputee at a care home, have been sacked for gross misconduct www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We’d love to see you tonight, but if you can’t make it to Pratt Street—don't worry, we’ve got you covered! 📱 ​Watch the Housing Hustings LIVE on Instagram: @streetskitchen ​⏰ Doors 19:15 | Stream starts 19:30 Drop your questions in the live chat! 💬👇

Tomorrow Bríd Doherty, Senior Associate in our team, will chair the Holborn & St Pancras Housing & Homelessness Hustings 📅 Date: Tuesday, 6 October 🕖 Time: Doors open at 19:15, kick-off at 19:30 📍 Venue: 11a Pratt Street www.streetskitchen.org/2026/10/at-l...

1,720 people died while experiencing homelessness in the UK last year... 💔 ​That includes 50 children. ​Since 2017, over 10,000 people have died without a secure place to call home. This isn’t a housing statistic — it is a national scandal. www.bigissue.com/news/housing...

1,720 people died while experiencing homelessness in the UK last year... 💔 ​That includes 50 children. ​Since 2017, over 10,000 people have died without a secure place to call home. This isn’t a housing statistic — it is a national scandal. www.bigissue.com/news/housing...

Really inspiring to sit down with Elodie and Jon from Streets Kitchen to hear about their incredible work supporting people facing homelessness in Holborn and St Pancras, and the need for urgent action to tackle the housing crisis.

🤝 Join us on Sunday 4 October to celebrate the anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street. ➡️ Assemble: 12pm, Tower Hamlets Town Hall ➡️ March: 1pm via Aldgate East and Leman Street (approx. 1.3 miles) ➡️ Rally: 2:30-4:30pm, St George's Gardens Speakers, music, poetry and solidarity.

Deaths related to illicit drugs rose by 11% in Scotland last year to 1,133 as the country struggles to tackle the worst fatality rate in Europe... bbc.com/news/article...

Pay rent, eat or keep warm? Growing numbers face hard choices as housing benefit gap grows.. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

🚨Camden recorded a 23% increase in rough sleepers in the last year, the biggest proportional rise of any London borough, after the council spent more than £78million on homelessness and rough sleeping services since May 2024... Wasted millions surely 😫 www.nwlondoner.co.uk/news/2109202...

🚨Camden recorded a 23% increase in rough sleepers in the last year, the biggest proportional rise of any London borough, after the council spent more than £78million on homelessness and rough sleeping services since May 2024... Wasted millions surely 😫 www.nwlondoner.co.uk/news/2109202...

The security service has accepted it gave evidence based on lies to three courts and that senior MI5 officers were repeatedly dishonest - the first time MI5 has accepted that lies were told to the courts while defending a violent neo-Nazi spy www.bbc.com/news/article...

🚨Warning to charities: "reducing admin to free up time" is always code for "we can now cut staff and pile more complex cases onto fewer workers". AI won’t alleviate worker burnout; it will just be used to justify higher caseloads. housingdigital.co.uk/homeless-lin...

Surrounded by police in a Penryn bus shelter for making breakfast with a butter knife. ​When survival tasks like eating become a police matter, the system isn't failing—it's working exactly as designed to push homeless people out of sight. 🧵

The zine looks amazing - and is suddenly so topical! 'To Mask is to Care – why masking at protests matters" is launching on 26 September

Four women have described being targeted by boys and older men connected to drug gangs, manipulated into abusive relationships, then repeatedly sexually exploited. All believe the authorities failed to protect them and did not take their allegations seriously www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Finland tried to end homelessness. What can we learn from its runaway success – and recent failures? The Housing First policy led to the number of homeless people in Finland dropping by half. Those with firsthand experience explain why it worked www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

✂️ CALL-OUT: Volunteer barbers & hairdressers wanted for Streets Fest 2026! ​A fresh trim brings dignity and confidence. Can you offer a couple of hours this Wednesday, 2 Sept. in Finsbury Park? Chairs and power provided! ​📩 DM us or email getinvolved@streetskitchen.org 💈💚

🚨One in six prison leavers in London are released into homelessness, according to analysis by the social justice group Nacro, as the Probation Service struggles with what is being dubbed a "chronic workload crisis". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

✂️ CALL-OUT: Volunteer barbers & hairdressers wanted for Streets Fest 2026! ​A fresh trim brings dignity and confidence. Can you offer a couple of hours this Wednesday, 2 Sept. in Finsbury Park? Chairs and power provided! ​📩 DM us or email getinvolved@streetskitchen.org 💈💚

John Chistodoulou, the billionaire landlord, has been found in a court of law to owe tenants £263,555. He's now evading paying those residents a penny We need real accounability for landlords that break the law. It's time for a no tolerance approach www.mylondon.news/news/zone-1-...

🚨A Metropolitan Police officer who said he hated #homeless people and "couldn't wait" to Taser someone has been sacked from the force... The 12th now from Charing Cross station since the panorama investigation! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🚨A Metropolitan Police officer who said he hated #homeless people and "couldn't wait" to Taser someone has been sacked from the force... The 12th now from Charing Cross station since the panorama investigation! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

‘After a few days he was being bullied, he was assaulted by an officer, he wasn't getting his medication, he wasn't getting his food’ - fears for inmates at troubled jail, HMP Lowdham Grange in Nottinghamshire www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

FACIAL RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY: KNOW YOUR RIGHTS 👁️ As police continue expanding their use of this surveillance tool, it's vital to know your rights if you come across one. Read our advice and information article. 👇 https://www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/facialrecadvice

Turns out trying to witness a solar eclipse is a lot like trying to navigate Britain's police complaints system: high expectations quickly followed by frustration and disappointment

Trump issued his anti-homeless Executive Order one year ago. It's not a coincidence that DC, a historically Black city where the vast majority of unhoused people are Black, is where Trump first began testing his cruel and ineffective anti-homeless order. buff.ly/Yz2JSlF

Serious Violence Reduction Orders have no impact on violent crime or weapons offending, says Home Office evaluation Results from a 2-yr pilot reveal that only ONE weapon was recovered from searches under the power across the four trial police force areas www.stop-watch.org/news-opinion...

🚨Extreme heat is a killer for anyone having to sleep rough. Dehydration and sunstroke are critical dangers right now. We need urgent funds to distribute vital survival essentials and run our Hub. Please donate or share to help others! 🥵 www.peoplesfundraising.com/fundraising/...

Live facial recognition cameras are to be deployed at some of London's Tube stations from today www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Big Brother Watch questioned the effectiveness of LFR and said its use was "dystopian" and that it "treats the public like suspects"

🚨Extreme heat is a killer for anyone having to sleep rough. Dehydration and sunstroke are critical dangers right now. We need urgent funds to distribute vital survival essentials and run our Hub. Please donate or share to help others! 🥵 www.peoplesfundraising.com/fundraising/...

🧵1/ “A reckless, dangerous and racist policing operation” The policing of Brighton’s Carnival Against Fascism: netpol.org/2026/08/07/o...

Nine women have brought a High Court claim against the Metropolitan Police over arrests made before the King's coronation that they say were unlawful. Representing the group, Partner Susie Labinjoh highlights the lasting impact the arrests have had as the case proceeds through the High Court.

The failings come despite decades of promises from police chiefs, senior prosecutors, courts and government that the criminal justice system will better protect women from male violence after a series of scandals... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

'The legislation forms part of a general legislative and judicial trend to recast protest not as a fundamental democratic right but as disruption and collective harm' - Associate Bhaskar Banerjee on Understanding your Protest Rights under the Crime and Policing Act 2026 www.hja.net/expert-comme...

'Pushing it out of sight does not solve it'-Concern over treatment of homeless during Fleadh A Cllr. claims there are growing reports of people experiencing #homelessness being encouraged or directed away from the city centre into other parts of Belfast www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/belfast...

This is a vital must watch contribution from the front lines... 'Homelessness isn't the issue': Rough sleepers respond to Andy Burnham's support pledge news.sky.com/video/what-r...

In under a month, #StreetsFest is back in Finsbury Park! 🎊🎉🎵🎶 ​The UK's only festival specifically for people experiencing #homelessness or at risk, bringing key services and grassroots support directly to those in need. ​Stay tuned for updates! #Islington #Haringey #Hackney

In under a month, #StreetsFest is back in Finsbury Park! 🎊🎉🎵🎶 ​The UK's only festival specifically for people experiencing #homelessness or at risk, bringing key services and grassroots support directly to those in need. ​Stay tuned for updates! #Islington #Haringey #Hackney