Karin Goodwin

Asylum, Housing and homelessness

Call for probe after man found dead in Covid-19 asylum seeker hotel

Karin Goodwin on May 10, 2020May 15, 2020

A 30-year-old Syrian man died after moving to a hotel used by the Home Office to house asylum seekers amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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Asylum, Health, Housing and homelessness, Human rights

Asylum seekers’ lives ‘put at risk’ by decision to move them to hotels

Karin Goodwin on April 22, 2020April 23, 2020

Hundreds of asylum seekers have been moved out of their flats and into Glasgow hotels where they are unable to isolate amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Health, Housing and homelessness, Human rights, Society

Calls to help drug users access services in Covid-19 crisis

Karin Goodwin on April 8, 2020April 9, 2020

Calls are growing for people with drug addictions to get urgent access to life-saving treatment and prescriptions to help them self-isolate during the pandemic.

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Health, Human rights, Society

Crucial services to disabled people cut due to coronavirus pandemic

Karin Goodwin on March 26, 2020March 29, 2020

Care packages for disabled people have been suspended with immediate affect due to staff pressures resulting from the coronavirus epidemic.

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Housing and homelessness, Health

Homeless ‘should be housed in hotels’ to protect them from Covid-19

Karin Goodwin on March 17, 2020March 20, 2020

Street homeless people must be urgently accommodated in hotels in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, according to those working to support them.

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Society

Illegal injection van ‘will prevent hundreds of drug deaths’

Karin Goodwin on March 3, 2020March 4, 2020

Canadian campaigner Garth Mullins has backed a Glasgow activist's plan to launch an injection centre in the city.

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Housing and homelessness, Health

Scotland has highest rate of homeless deaths in the UK, new figures reveal

Karin Goodwin on February 5, 2020February 24, 2020

Scotland has a higher rate of homeless deaths than other UK countries, according to official statistics showing that 359 people died over a two-year period.

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