Wednesday 16 November 2022 11:11 PM Calls grow for housing boss to resign after toddler Awaab Ishak left to die in ... trends now
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Calls were mounting last night for the resignation of the £185,000-a-year boss of the housing association which left a toddler to die in a mould-infested flat.
Gareth Swarbrick, whose failure to quit over two-year-old Awaab Ishak's avoidable death 'beggars belief', according to Housing Secretary Michael Gove, is clinging to his post as pressure intensifies.
The 55-year-old chief executive of Rochdale Boroughwide Housing (RBH) – whose pay package has increased by more than a quarter in the past three years – has yet to apologise for the 'degrading' conditions Awaab's family were living in.
After a coroner said the tragedy in one of the richest nations on earth should be a 'defining moment' for the housing sector, Mr Gove yesterday accused Mr Swarbrick's organisation of a 'terrible dereliction of duty'.
The Housing Secretary told Parliament that the housing association's failures were 'rooted in prejudice' and Awaab and his family 'deserved better'.
Awaab Ishack (pictured), 2, died after living in 'degrading' conditions in a mould-infested Rochdale flat
Gareth Swarbrick (pictured), 55, whose failure to quit over two-year-old Awaab Ishak's avoidable death 'beggars belief', according to Housing
