{"id":131678,"date":"2022-11-18T18:17:50","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T11:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/position-of-landlord-of-rochdale-flat-in-which-awaab-ishak-died-untenable\/"},"modified":"2022-11-18T18:39:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T11:39:48","slug":"position-of-landlord-of-rochdale-flat-in-which-awaab-ishak-died-untenable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/position-of-landlord-of-rochdale-flat-in-which-awaab-ishak-died-untenable\/","title":{"rendered":"Position of landlord of Rochdale flat in which Awaab Ishak died \u2018untenable\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nRBH chief executive Gareth Swarbrick faces growing pressure to quit after death of two-year-oldThe position of the landlord of the mould-infested Rochdale flat that killed two-year-old Awaab Ishak is \u201cuntenable\u201d, a senior government source has said, hours after Gareth Swarbrick issued a defiant statement that he would not quit.Swarbrick, the chief executive of Rochdale Boroughwide Housing, a social landlord, said late on Thursday \u201cI will not be resigning\u201d, despite a call in parliament for him to stand down and the launch of an investigation into potential \u201csystemic failures\u201d at the organisation. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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