
Daniel Hewitt
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Investigations Editor @itvnews. Author: Left to Rot - available to pre-order (out June 2026). Presenter: The Trapped podcast. Get in touch with stories #wba fan
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Temi, 6, and Mary, 5, have been homeless for six months. The family have been moved 10 times to different temporary properties. Their primary school is in Peckham, but they’re staying in a guesthouse an hour away. At their school, over HALF of the 300 pupils are also homeless.
Daniel Hewitt2,506,427 просмотров • 2 лет назад

Mikey is blind, autistic and learning disabled. He lives in supported living being cared for by Lifeways, the UK’s largest provider of complex community care. His mum installed cameras after becoming alarmed at his decline. “If it wasn’t for the cameras, Mikey would be dead.”
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Sad to hear of Parmod Kalia’s death. A former subpostmaster whose life Post Office tried to destroy, wrongly accusing a father of theft and getting him sent to prison. I had the pleasure of spending time with him at his home last year. He died before receiving his compensation.
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🔺Britain’s Housing Crisis: the cold reality of life trapped in temporary accommodation - the housing safety net on the brink of collapse in parts of England. We followed 2 homeless families who both ended up on the streets, with their children, with no where to go. Part 1/3
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My ITV analysis on the Grenfell report, a tragedy ultimately about power - about who has it and who doesn’t. In the sixth richest country in the world, in its capital city dripping with wealth, 72 people died because people with power didn’t do enough to stop it happening.
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Exclusive: Our undercover investigation into puppy yoga has found puppies as young as 6 weeks old being denied water, deprived of sleep & worked for hours. RSPCA and The Kennel Club want it banned Sam Leader and I have also found some aren’t licensed👇
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I spent today with a woman whose son has learning disabilities and is stuck in a care home where she worries every day he’s been neglected in a broken care system. One example of Westminster’s consistent failure to tackle big, systematic problems as it descends again into chaos.
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🔺Investigation: Working families forced to live in tents and hotels. We spent time with parents and children made homeless by record rents, unaffordable deposits and no social homes. Callis is 8 and homeless. He says all he wants “is to move somewhere good and stay there”. 1/5
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After we exposed “appalling” neglect of people with learning disabilities by the UK’s largest care private provider, Lifeways CEO Andrea Kinkade agreed to an interview with me. In this first section, I asked for her response and whether she’d said sorry to the victims 1/2
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The care of adults with learning disabilities and autism has been rapidly privatised in the last 30 years. It’s a sector now dominated by investment managers, private equity and foreign money while local councils who pay them are pushed to bankruptcy. Here’s a quick overview:
Daniel Hewitt24,534 просмотров • 10 месяцев назад

A revealing exchange in my interview with the Housing Secretary. Hopes many have of a council (social) housing revolution to tackle the housing crisis are over. Despite record high homelessness and private rents and unaffordable house prices, building homes to buy is the focus.
Daniel Hewitt12,738 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад

Exclusive: Andy Burnham tells me the government must be more “radical” to end homelessness, attacking the Home Office and Treasury for policies which are “creating it”. He wants a permanent “Everyone in” policy, guaranteeing a bed for all rough sleepers
Daniel Hewitt14,285 просмотров • 5 месяцев назад

Lifeways CEO was paid £923,000 last year. The company’s 4 directors earned £1.65million, while paying its care workers the minimum wage. Workers told us staffing levels were at times dangerously low, and they had to work up to 16 hours a day. I put this to the CEO. 2/2
Daniel Hewitt21,047 просмотров • 1 год назад

“We’re still waiting for anybody, ANYBODY, to be accountable. Not one person has lost their liberty, not one person has lost their job.” Lee Castleton OBE “She was the CEO…just sitting back and believing everything she was told. I don’t believe her for one minute.” Janet skinner
Daniel Hewitt12,361 просмотров • 1 год назад
