The Latest Breaking News from Awaab Ishak

Mum-of-three Aisha Hussain said she worries for her children, with one the same age as Awaab Ishak, two, who died in December 2020 due to prolonged exposure to mould

The inquest into the death of a two-year-old-boy, Awaab Ishak, in Rochdale, has found that black mould and the landlord’s repeated failure to fix the problem, was to blame. Delivering her verdict, senior coroner Joanne Kearsley said: “I’m sure I’m not alone in having thought: how does this happen? How,…

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More than 120,000 have now signed our petition calling for a change in the law that would compel housing associations not to allow any other child, or anyone else, to suffer in damp and mouldy social housing

Housing secretary committed to ‘Awaab’s law’ to improve experiences of those living with mould and damp

The Housing Secretary is committed to an ‘Awaab’s law’ to improve the experiences of those living with mould and damp in their homes.

Marc Davenant was welcomed into the deplorable homes of many struggling families across the country, where he was able to capture the true extent of their despair

Built in the early 1800s, it was originally a ‘high status’ detached home for a middle class family.

Rochdale Boroughwide Housing, which owns and manages the Freehold estate where Awaab Ishak lived, has been stripped of a £1m government grant after the housing association was found to have failed to fix the mould which led to the two-year-old's death