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YOUR RESULTS FOR STORIES BY Rebecca Wearn

Rebecca Wearn is a multimedia journalist specialising in social and economic issues. Producer for BBC TV, Radio and World Service business news full-time, Rebecca keeps herself extra busy with independent projects in developing countries, with work published in the Guardian, Big Issue, New Internationalist, BBC Focus on Africa and short films on Current TV.

Campaign: more needs to be done to make Welfare fair
Rebecca Wearn December 04 2013

Have you been sanctioned? Please get in touch

This autumn, The Pavement has focused its attention on welfare. The changes to the way people in Britain receive financial suppo...

Campaign: Costs of the cuts
Rebecca Wearn September 06 2013

How have the cuts affected you? We want to know

  Over the last three years one word has been at the heart of Government policy: austerity. Since the Coalition Governmen...

Mapping DZs
Rebecca Wearn October 06 2011

 

  Across the capital, local authorities have been employing different tactics to deal with ‘anti-social behaviour&rs...

Carrying a torch
Rebecca Wearn October 06 2011

 Homeless people are among the nominees to carry the Olympic flame

  If you’re a little tired of all things 2012, of budgets, of timetables, of lack of tickets, of Boris Johnson&rsquo...

Homeless men paid for beatings
Rebecca Wearn May 12 2011

Owner says the men will do anything for money

There is an increasing number of reports in the American press about homeless men accepting money from websites that show se...

The Girl‚Äö?Ñ?¥s Guide to Homelessness
Rebecca Wearn May 12 2011

Book urges the public to rethink their views on homelessness, says author Brianna Karp

An ex-rough sleeper has published The Girl’s Guide to Homelessness about her experiences. She hopes it will demonstrate ...

Rough sleeper dies in custody
Rebecca Wearn September 30 2010

Independent Police Complaints Commission will examine CCTV and police custody records

An investigation has been launched into the death of a rough sleeper who died in police custody. Thirty-six-year-old Valdas Jas...

Methadone time limit to be introduced
Rebecca Wearn September 08 2010

The heroin substitute may be prescribed only for a limited period

At the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse (NTA) board meeting in early July, plans were tabled to apply strict limit...

Darlington murder
Rebecca Wearn September 08 2010

Two teens have been charged with the murder of rough sleeper George Akers

Two 15-year-old boys have been charged with the murder of George Akers, who was found beaten to death in a churchyard in the nor...

Obama to end homelessness?
Rebecca Wearn September 08 2010

US government aims to end homelessness among veterans and the chronically homeless by 2015

The UK has a long-standing pledge to end rough sleeping by 2012, cynically in time for the London Olympics, but now those across...

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