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Catching up with @insidehousing.bsky.social's round up...this edition reflecting how domestic abuse survivors are being failed time and time again. We need to get beyond apologies to systems change.

It's hard to convey just how monstrous the privatisation of children's care homes has become. Highly vulnerable children have been turned into cash machines, with devastating impacts on their wellbeing. Please sit down before reading this week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Councils are sending vulnerable kids to homes ran by money-grabbing cowboys and private-equity vultures, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

No one wants this. Not the families. Not the receiving areas. Not London boroughs. It’s a nightmare all round. But if London councils can’t fund homelessness accommodation locally, due to Local Housing Allowance freezes and budget pressures, they will procure elsewhere. This isn’t complicated.

A hugely rewarding moment to see how our research + advocacy is having impact in the House of Lords as @pollyneate.bsky.social proposes an amendment to the Social Housing Bill to ensure that domestic abuse survivors no longer face exclusion from social housing on the basis of housing-related debts.

Absolutely egregious example of women and their children being pulled into homelessness and a debt trap not of their making 👇 www.standard.co.uk/homesandprop...

Vulnerable families, including domestic abuse survivors, being illegally ‘dumped’ hundreds of miles away by London councils. 'Dumped'...'exported'...languages and practices of dehumanisation. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

My term as editor of Transactions is coming to end and we are now looking for a new editor to join the wonderful @benandersongeog.bsky.social & Beth Greenhough It’s been an absolute honour @rgs.org! www.rgs.org/about-us/our...

Legal equality duty for public services should be scrapped, says Badenoch. Tories chasing Reform vote. Apparently, equality is bad as some push for return of age, gender, race, disability discrimination. Rights hard-won by our ancestors to be reversed. What next?

Exclusive: Practice that includes women fleeing abuse is ‘ripping at social fabric’ of towns in poorest parts of England Vulnerable families including women fleeing abuse are being illegally “dumped” hundreds of miles away by London councils in a practice “ripping at the social fabric” of deprived towns, a Guardian investigation has found. Against the backdrop of a deepening housing crisis, the number of homeless people forced out of London has doubled in the past two years. Continue reading...

Two of the Society’s scholarly journals, are looking for new Editors to support the work of the journals and their editorial teams.

Exclusive: Practice that includes women fleeing abuse is ‘ripping at social fabric’ of towns in poorest parts of England

The Conservative leader will argue that the rules have become a "minefield that exposes almost every significant public decision to legal challenge".