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Homelessness Prevention Grant Misallocation: Brighton & Hove's £31.4M Budget Crisis
Brighton & Hove City Council spends 89% of its £31.4M homelessness budget on temporary accommodation, misallocating 78% of the Homelessness Prevention Grant. Prevention assessments fell 30% in a single year.
Read the full investigation → Exposé 01Base One Holdings: The £14.7m No-Competition Contract
How Brighton & Hove City Council awarded a multi-million pound temporary accommodation management contract without competitive tender — and what the documents reveal about the procurement justification.
Read the full investigation → Exposé 02BART's House: Families in Unregistered Accommodation
An investigation into the placement of vulnerable families in unregistered, uninspected temporary accommodation — and the council's failure to conduct required property checks before placement.
Read the full investigation → Exposé 03The Urgency Bypass: How Emergency Procurement Rules Are Being Misused
A pattern-of-practice analysis revealing how Brighton & Hove has systematically invoked urgency exemptions to bypass competitive procurement — including three contracts let in the same 14-day window.
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