Most of the emergency government aid went to covering care homes’ loss of revenue. Care workers, meanwhile, kept the sector afloat through overtime.
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Two experts in social care examine the issues that are derailing the care sector in the UK – and look at the case for a National Care Service.
For-profit care homes are increasingly synonymous with children being placed far from their homes.
The social care sector has been struggling for years, and relying on migrant workers to support it.
The COVID pandemic has left lingering consequences both for people receiving adult social care and support in England, and for the workforce delivering it.
State-funded schools are not allowed to be operated as profit-making entities. So why are children in care being accommodated by for-profit companies?
Mega-events like the Olympics have the potential to start important conversations around societal change. But improving the lives of disabled people takes much more than that.
Care workers in England have faced impossible pressures during lockdown. The government needs to ensure better pay and working conditions.
A new health and social care levy will be introduced in the upcoming tax year. Here’s how it will hit your payslip.
Care workers, care recipients, think tanks and parliament itself agree that social care reform is urgently needed. But this plan’s lack of detail and insufficient funding suggest that it a ways off.
The case for introducing a limit on how much people pay for their own care is clear. Figuring out how to calculate that cap, though, is complicated.
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Professor of Evidence Based Intervention and Policy Evaluation, University of Oxford
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Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Oxford
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Senior Postdoctoral Researcher in Social Policy, University of Oxford
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Professor of Business Ethics, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Lecturer in Work and Organisation, University of Sussex
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Professor of Sociology, University of Sheffield
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Research Fellow, School of Social Policy, University of Birmingham
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Doctoral Prize Fellow, Sport, Business and Society Research Group, Loughborough University
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Associate Professor in Disability Studies, Coventry University
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Associate Professor of Public Policy, Public Services International Research Unit, University of Greenwich
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Assistant Professorial Research Fellow, Care Policy and Evaluation Centre (CPEC), London School of Economics and Political Science
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Lecturer in Work and Organisations, University of Stirling
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Senior Lecturer in Economics and Personal Finance, The Open University
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Associate Professor, University of Central Florida
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Emeritus Professor of Finance and Financial History, The Open University
