Generation K: Kids on Ketamine

File on 4 Investigates goes to Burnley in Lancashire to meet the devastated families dealing with ketamine addiction and its life-changing impact.

BBC News In Depth - The disturbing rise of ketamine abuse among young people

Back street beauty: investigating the cosmetic industry after the first death in the UK following a liquid Brazilian butt lift

I meet the women who’ve been disfigured by cosmetic procedures, and find out why existing regulation is struggling to keep up with the industry. And a beauty salon in London is exposed for the first time by a trainee who’s horrified by what she witnesses.

BBC News Online - Women claim injury and disfigurement after liposuction

Daily Mail - Legal loophole that means anyone can perform surgery

Sick of waiting: the children struggling to get operations on the NHS

In the headlines about NHS waiting lists, children don’t often get a mention. But there’s a gap between adult and paediatric surgery - with children’s operations lagging behind.

I investigate why, and hear from children whose conditions are deteriorating. Some could be left inoperable if they don’t have their surgery soon.

BBC News Online: Record numbers of children going private as others face long NHS waits.

No place to call home

142,000 children in England are homeless and living in what should be short term temporary accommodation. Many find themselves consigned to B&Bs and hotels - even shipping containers – some without a bed of their own, living among rats and cockroaches.

Tens of thousands will be there for more than five years. In this programme, children and teenagers describe how a system which is meant to be a safety net, has become a trap they can’t escape.

Wilko Town

No area has been harder hit by the collapse of retailer Wilko than Worksop in Nottinghamshire. File on 4 follows former staff as they attempt to claw their way back into work.

Firefighters on trial

File on 4 investigates claims of sexism, bullying and abuse in the fire service. Is it time for radical reform of the emergency service?

High anxiety: the deadly trade in street valium

The illegal benzodiazepines behind a rise in overdose deaths across the country.

Deadly delays: The ambulance crisis

Record ambulance delays mean some patients are dying waiting for help to arrive

BBC News Online - ‘Son shares desperate 999 calls’

Mental health profiteers: The dark world of online anxiety ‘cures’

File on 4 investigates the rogue online operators charging thousands to ‘cure’ anxiety

Covid 19 - Doctors and deniers

Diaries of those trying to save Covid patients in January 2021

A year of Covid

How have the ICU doctors and nurses coped since we first heard their diaries last spring?

Coronavirus: The long road to recovery

After Covid 19, the survivors struggling with the life-changing physical and psychological effects.

BBC News Online - Long Covid patients need treatment programme, say doctors

Daily Mail - 60,000 Britons may have had Long Covid for more than three months

Guardian - Danger Long Covid sufferers might end up being forgotten

Coronavirus: The care homes catastrophe

Did the authorities react quickly enough to the threat to care homes from Covid 19?

BBC News Online - Data delay left care homes ‘fighting losing battle’

Coronavirus: Stories from behind the mask

Candid diaries of doctors and nurses recorded over two months of the pandemic

Lost on the line

The county lines gangs recruiting girls

BBC News Online - ‘Girls under the radar’ in drugs gangs

The Sun - ‘We’re here to make money and not get killed’.

Winging it?

Why is the military’s flying training system struggling to get off the ground?

Dying on the streets

Why are rough sleepers are being denied end of life care - despite being diagnosed as terminally ill?

Paralympic sport - fair play?

Are some countries cheating the paralympic classification system in the pursuit of medals?

BBC Sport Online - 'Everyone is cheating the system', says former chief executive

BBC Sport Online - 'It's somewhere between bullying and control' - Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson

Breaking into Britain

An expose of firms offering to produce fake documents to enable migrants to get into the UK.

Linked article: BBC News Online - Exclusive: Thousands use fake lives scam to get into UK

Linked article: The Independent - Thousands 'pretending' to live in Ireland

Dirty oil?

Did UK firms win multi-million pound oil contracts through bribes to corrupt officials?

Keeping it in the family

Placing children with relatives as an alternative to adoption. Does it always work?

An inside job

The Britons smuggling illegal migrants into the UK.

Ticket to hide

How migrants cross borders under the radar.

Linked article: BBC News online - Exclusive: British people smugglers jailed in France.

Sick of school

Why are so many teachers off with stress?

Where have all the nurses gone?

Uncovering the reasons for the shortage of nurses and the cost of plugging the gap.

Abused but not heard

The real story of Knowl View special school for boys in Rochdale.

Linked article: BBC News online - Double abuse agony for Rochdale family.

Street slaves

How the homeless are exploited for cheap labour.

RBS: default by design?  

Asking whether RBS profited by forcing some viable businesses into insolvency.

Tobacco: the lobbyists.

Tobacco tactics inside Westminster and Brussels - and the alleged corruption scandal which some say could have brought down the European Commission.

Rochdale abuse: failed victims?

Exclusive interview with a police whistleblower claiming a major child grooming case failed victims.

Undercover cops.

Exclusive interviews with the women suing the Metropolitan police after they were tricked into long-standing relationships with undercover officers.

A healthy market?

NHS commissioning. What do we know about the deals struck with private companies to run parts of the NHS?

Linked article: BBC News Online - NHS Commissioning

Family annihilation.

What drives fathers to kill their families and themselves?