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Val Stevenson is book reviews editor of a consumer magazine, author of a few books, occasional lecturer, editor of an award-winning arts and politics site and was ace volunteer webmistress of the Pavement until November 2019.

Common rights?
Nicole O’Connor March 12 2014

Why should it be so hard to access washing facilities when you're homeless, asks Nicole O’Connor

So let’s face it, us women take significantly more pride in our appearance than our men. Every day hygiene, cleansing rout...

The Pavement is recruiting
Val Stevenson June 30 2013

Could you be our part-time Interim Executive Director?

  We are looking for a part-time Interim Executive Director to provide The Pavement with inspiring leadership, passion, in...

Squatting six months on
Val Stevenson April 11 2013

We look at the longer-term effects of Section 144 of of the Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act, which criminalised squatting in residential buildings

  Last September, after a brief consultation period during which it issued inaccurate and often sensationalist statements ...

She’s gone home...
Val Stevenson February 04 2013

A young homeless woman is discharged from hospital less than two days after nearly dying.

  A young homeless woman was discharged from Charing Cross Hospital less than two days after nearly dying. The teenager w...

The barbaric genius
Val Stevenson June 15 2012

John Healy was going nowhere fast until he was introduced to chess

  On 25 May, Barbaric Genius, a documentary about the rise and fall (and rise?) of John Healy opened. It’s an odd fi...

Gatekeeping at BCC
Val Stevenson December 08 2010

A year after Birmingham was found guilty of gatekeeping, it runs into more little legal difficulties

In the December 2009 case of Kelly & Mehari v Birmingham City Council (BCC), the council was found guilty of gatekeeping -...

Container City
Val Stevenson December 06 2009

Homeless move-on project takes shape

Representatives from a number of homeless organisations have visited Container City (pictured), in the south of England, to di...

Alice and Kev
Val Stevenson July 10 2009

Virtual people with a real following

A blog about a virtual homeless family has become a real-life internet sensation. Robin Burkinshaw, a games design student at An...

Shelter from the Storm
Val Stevenson May 24 2009

Pete Postlethwaite opens a new Islington shelter where foxes previously lived

Pete Postlethwaite, the star of The Age of Stupid, recently turned up in north London to open Shelter from the Storm, a new cent...

Two jobs for the price of one, but what does it say?
Val Stevenson May 18 2009

Homeless people in Camden won‘t get ASBOs just for being homeless, but...

Camden Council has appointed Tom Preest, formerly head of the borough's street population services with a £1.3m budget, as...

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