A young black woman from the Midlands is made homeless. She is allocated a council home but finds herself living on an estate where racism is rife and she suffers daily abuse.
"She was a strong person but the persecution meant she was constantly living in fear," says Nushra Mansuri, the social worker who took up the case.
The young woman had begged the council to re-house her but no action was taken.
"It was double discrimination in a way," says Mansuri, who worked for a voluntary organisation at the time, and is now joint England manager at the British Association of Social Workers.
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