内容摘要：Simply put, those from wealthier backgrounds are statistically more likely to get better results.

Simply put, those from wealthier backgrounds are statistically more likely to get better results.

SBC apologised and said it had "updated staff training to highlight the importance of affordability checks".Ms X was placed in a one-bedroom flat by the council when she was homeless in October 2023.

She was charged £184.10 a week, which was the local housing allowance - the maximum amount of benefits a person can claim for private rented accommodation.The rent increased to £455 per week in February 2024, and then to £525 in April 2024.The council then refused to give Ms X permanent two-bedroom accommodation because she had accrued "significant rent arrears".

She went to the ombudsman after the council failed to uphold her complaint.The ombudsman said Ms X's income was less than the difference between her housing benefit and the rest of her rent, so "on the balance of probabilities, the temporary accommodation was unaffordable for Ms X and therefore unsuitable".

"Ms X should not have had to make any payments towards her rent and should not have any outstanding amounts on her rent account," it said.

SBC was ordered to repay Ms X £2,760 for the rent payments made and to reduce her rent account balance to zero, as well as pay £300 for the "avoidable distress and uncertainty".This is the idea behind Op Boss, which has been running for 15 years in Bristol and was an early adopter of the NPCC's Nordic Model approach to policing sex work.

"We go out about 10 police officers in plain clothes under a directed surveillance authority," explains Rose Brown, an Avon and Somerset Police sex work liaison officer."We have someone who's monitoring what's going on in the red-light area from CCTV and we primarily take the Nordic approach - so we look to safeguard the women and disrupt the men who are coming into the area to purchase sex."

In an 18-month period, 145 offences have been dealt with by the Op Boss team.More than 1,000 men have been sent on a course to prevent reoffending and to learn about the women's vulnerabilities since Op Boss started.