It’s an incredible honour to make this shortlist alongside the brilliant work of these amazing journalists 🤯

✍️ Written Journalism National

👏 Kia-Elise Green (The I Paper)
👏 debbie andalo (The Guardian)
👏 Holly Bancroft (The Independent)

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MPs and Lords have called on the Home Office to act faster to help Afghan families, saying the government has failed to deliver on its promise to bring women right’s activists and others who supported the British mission to the UK.
independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

As more than 700 people arrived in UK after Channel crossing on Wednesday, hear from refugees about why they still want to make the journey despite the Rwanda bill 👇

independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

Eye-opening despatch from Dunkirk by ⁦Holly Bancroft⁩ on the refugees risking it all for a better life in the UK independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

Young Mikey didn't get to finish his GCSEs before being stabbed to death at a 16th birthday party.

His distraught mother, Hayley, opened his results at his grave with friends.

'I wanted him to see how well he’d done'

Yet another victim of knife crime.

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More than 100,000 asylum seekers to be trapped in immigration limbo by government's plans
/Joe Middleton
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People detained under Mental Health Act dying at three times rate of those in prisons Amy-Clare Martin
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Icymi: Here’s how the government’s new Criminal Justice Bill could impact rough sleepers like me, by Andy O'Rourke at Crisis

independent.co.uk/voices/homeles…

Number of Vietnamese nationals arriving on small boats has increased ten-fold in the past year - new immigration stats for Sunak's Rwanda speech show.

Jan-April last yr they made up 3% of all arrivals, now its 20%.
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Calls made to an anti-slavery helpline have reached a record high, with the number of potential victims in the care sector rising by almost a third and the first suspected cases of forced surrogacy reported.
independent.co.uk/news/uk/record…

Scandal of care home sex predators free to target the vulnerable independent.co.uk/news/health/ca…

Defiant Lords have refused to cave to ministers and sent back Rishi Sunak’s flagship Rwanda Bill to the Commons with two key changes.
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Letter in Sunday The Telegraph today urging ministers to exempt Afghans who supported British Army 🇬🇧 & UK mission from deportation to #Rwanda , co-signed by us, Rory Stewart Ash Alexander-Cooper OBE #LordDannatt #LordSedwill & other military heavyweights

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Read the IASC’s comments on human trafficking and the Homes for Ukraine schemes here
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Excl: Ukrainian refugees were sent to live with hosts linked to serious and organised crime under the government’s flagship Homes for Ukraine scheme, freedom of information data shows.

Council workers told researchers about their fears of exploitation.
independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

Huge rise in refugees becoming homeless in England as charities slam ‘dysfunctional’ system
independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

Excl: Black people with cancer symptoms are taking twice as long to be diagnosed. Simeon, who battled Windrush Scandal & cancer, & Precious - who received shock diagnosis in A&E after collapsing in public & symptoms being overlooked by Drs - speak to me independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…