‘People are scared for their lives’ - Experts demand residents on Awaab Ishak are moved to empty Seven Sisters flats
Mental health experts have called for people on the Rochdale estate where tragic Awaab Ishak lived to be rehoused at the town’s Seven Sisters tower blocks - where hundreds of flats are being held empty ahead of demolition. An inquest into the death of little Awaab found the two-year-old's death was caused by a severe respiratory condition after living in damp and mouldy conditions at the Freehold estate - just a mile away from the doomed high rises at College Bank.
Saiqa Naz, president of BABCP’s board of trustees says people at the Freehold Estate are ‘scared for their lives - especially those that still live in the same block of flats as Awaab’. “And then those residents who are scared for their lives can be brought to a place of safety - there’s a physical safety and a psychological safety that needs to be taken into account as well.”
Colin, a cognitive behavioural therapy specialist, says efforts to improve people’s psychological wellbeing can be hampered where ‘institutional problems’ exist. He said: “What that does is it instils within the individuals the idea that perhaps there’s something fundamentally wrong with them. It was a tragedy that could and should have been prevented. That's why the Manchester Evening News and Shelter are campaigning 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.
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