Haringey Tenant Trapped at Home for 20 Months, Finds Ombudsman

From Haringey Community Voice:

For 20 months, an elderly woman was left effectively housebound in a property that failed to meet her basic needs. Unable to use her own bath and trapped by stairs she could not navigate without help, she told the Ombudsman she felt like "a prisoner in her own home".

Full story available here:

https://www.haringeyresidents.org/p/haringey-tenant-trapped-at-home...

Coming just after the 1,100 unread social work emails and the borough having the most upheld complaints by the Local Government Ombudsman of any council in the country, it makes you wonder if councillors are able to hold officers to account and change what seems a pervasive culture of apathy.