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Student housing, Social care, Charity lotteries

Consumer affairs, including a look at how cutbacks in social care are impacting care homes and their patients. With 3000 fewer beds in just six months, is care being compromised?

As rents continue to rocket, and complaints about the poor quality of student flats remain consistent, it's no surprise that some students are looking for alternatives to private landlords. Last year student Housing Cooperatives were set up in Birmingham and Edinburgh. The latest is in Sheffield. We meet the students moving in for the new academic year, as well as the members of the wider Cooperative movement that is supporting them financially.

Concluding our series on financial abuse of elderly people, we look at mail fraud - where criminals convince victims to send them money through the post. Some victims are so vulnerable that they continue to send the money, even when their relatives beg them not to. We meet one woman whose elderly aunt was tricked in to losing 拢20,000 and still wouldn't stop giving.

The market for tiles grew by 4% in the UK last year - perhaps because of the new trend for patterned tiles on bathroom and kitchen floors and walls. Retailer Topps Tiles is posting good profits, and has just launched 14 boutique stores aimed at the more discerning tile buyer. So why are people now desperate to decorate their homes with the kind of tiles that were unfashionable for so long?

Presenter: Peter White
Producer: Olive Clancy.

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45 minutes

Chapters

  • Social Care

    Social Care funding is falling, how is it affecting carehomes and those who live there?

    Duration: 09:00

  • Tiles

    Both wall and floor tiles are enjoying a comeback - what should you buy?

    Duration: 07:25

  • Charity Lotteries

    Should charity lotteries give more money to the good causes they're supposed to support?

    Duration: 06:39

  • Student Co-operatives

    Student accomodation is notoriously poor but a housing cooperative aims to improve things

    Duration: 07:09

  • Financial Abuse: Convincing Victims

    How do you convince a relative they are being defrauded if they won't believe you?

    Duration: 08:32

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