Maeve’s investigations have appeared on the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, the Guardian, Independent, HuffPost UK, Buzzfeed, Daily Telegraph, the Sunday Times, Vice News, BBC, Channel 4 News, Le Monde and O Globo and among others.
The following are a selection of her investigations from 2010 onwards.
Print and Online
Homelessness/ Housing
“A national scandal”: 449 people died homeless in the last year https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2018-10-08/homelessness-a-national-scandal
Dying Homeless: Counting the deaths of homeless people across the UK https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2018-04-23/dying-homeless
Locked Out: How Britain keeps people homeless https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2019-10-04/locked-out-how-britain-keeps-people-homeless
How a doctor who has never seen you can say you’re fit enough to sleep on the streets https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2019-12-18/how-a-doctor-who-has-never-seen-you-can-say-youre-fit-enough-to-sleep-on-the-streets
Investigation: Government planning thousands of new homes to be built in flood zones https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2015/12/10/investigation-government-planning-thousands-of-new-homes-to-be-built-in-flood-zones/
Domestic violence
No Place of Safety https://www.elle.com/uk/life-and-culture/culture/longform/a39301/refuge-women-domestic-violence-funding-cuts/
Revealed: Thousands of vulnerable women turned away as refuge funding is cut https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2017-10-16/a-system-at-breaking-point
Refugees and asylum seekers
Hundreds Of Children Seeking UK Asylum Are Disappearing From Care https://www.buzzfeed.com/maevemcclenaghan/hundreds-of-children-seeking-uk-asylum-are-disappearing-from
UK condemned for deporting survivors of trafficking back to Vietnam https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/dec/20/uk-condemned-for-deporting-survivors-of-trafficking-back-to-vietnam
High Court Ruling Leaves Trafficked Children At Risk, Campaigners Say https://www.buzzfeed.com/maevemcclenaghan/high-court-ruling-leaves-trafficked-children-at-risk-campaig
Refugee crisis: 20 children among 200 Syrians deported by the UK since start of war https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/refugee-crisis-20-children-among-200-syrians-deported-by-uk-since-start-of-war-10493946.html?origin=internalSearch
Yarl’s Wood: Children fleeing warzones being locked up at detention centre, investigation finds
Schooled in Britain, deported to danger: UK sends 600 former child asylum seekers back to Afghanistan.
Refugee crisis: Thousands of child asylum seekers deported back to war zones, Home Office admits
Facebook dark ads
Tory attack ad misrepresents Corbyn views on IRA, says Labour https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jun/02/labour-accuses-tories-of-fake-news-over-video-of-corbyn-ira-comments
Prison and justice
Exclusive: VICE News Investigates the UK’s 4,500 Prisoners Doing Life for Minor Crimes https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a39e9z/exclusive-vice-news-investigates-the-uks-4500-prisoners-doing-life-for-minor-crimes
The ‘joint enterprise’ law is screwing over young Brits with violent friends https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/xd3qna/joint-enterprise-edward-conteh-laura-mitchell
Public service cuts
Thousands of doctors say they will leave the NHS if contract changes go ahead https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/nhs/11915835/Junior-doctors-will-quit-NHS-if-Government-contract-changes-go-ahead.html
Family courts: self-representation hinders justice say magistrates https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/children-suffer-as-cuts-to-legal-aid-penalise-parents-in-court-9466727.html?origin=internalSearch
Revealed: How the CPS betrays victims of crime – numbers of witness protection staff falls by 57% in just three years https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/revealed-how-the-cps-betrays-victims-of-crime-numbers-of-staff-assigned-to-look-after-witnesses-9150172.html
Police take longer to respond to 999 calls as spending cuts bite https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/jul/14/police-longer-999-callout-times
Cuts undermining fire services, says Fire Brigades Union https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38278596
Lobbying
Big four accountancy firms donate £1.9m in services to political parties since 2009 https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2012/jul/10/lobbying
Lobbying: Calls for transparency over former MPs’ parliamentary passes https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/lobbying-calls-for-transparency-over-former-mps-access-to-parliament-6277136.html
Lonmin and a South African massacre
The British mine owners, the police and South Africa’s day of blood https://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/nov/24/lonmin-mine-shooting-police
Church seeks answers over South African mine massacre https://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/nov/24/church-of-england-unison-lonmin-mine-massacre
Environmental
Investigation: Coca Cola and the ‘fight back’ against plans to tackle plastic waste https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2017/01/25/investigation-coca-cola-fight-back-plans-tackle-plastic-waste/
BP leak: Report reveals BP came close to lethal incident at Hull plant https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2016/12/13/bp-leak-report-reveals-bp-came-close-lethal-incident-hull-plant/
Big Fish quota barons squeeze out small scale fishermen https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2016/05/15/investigation-big-fish-quota-barons-squeeze-out-small-scale-fishermen/
Investigation: Why this tiny boat has more fishing rights than many trawlers https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2016/05/15/investigation-why-this-tiny-boat-has-more-fishing-rights-than-many-trawlers/
Investigation: Top universities take £134m from fossil fuel giants despite divestment drive https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2015/10/23/data-top-universities-take-134m-from-fossil-fuel-giants-despite-divestment-drive/
Exposed: Academics-for-hire agree not to disclose fossil fuel funding https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2015/12/08/exposed-academics-for-hire/
Radio and podcasts
BBC 5Live Investigates – Children disappearing from care https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b077cksm
Reveal – Kids crossing borders alone https://www.revealnews.org/episodes/kids-crossing-borders-alone/
TBIJ – From England to Afghanistan – the long way home https://soundcloud.com/tbij/unaccompanied-asylum-seeking-children
BBC 5Live Investigates – Fire brigade response times https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b084zrlv
BBC 5Live Investigates – Fire dispatch system failures https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08ffgj4
TV/film
Channel 4 News – Make them count – dying homeless https://www.channel4.com/news/dying-homeless-on-uk-streets-counting-the-true-number
Channel 4 News – Cuts to domestic violence refuges https://www.channel4.com/news/women-turned-away-from-cash-strapped-refuges
Vice – Jailed for Minor Crimes: The UK’s Forgotten Prisoners https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldILWJ5BVWM
Maeve McClenaghan 