A visit to my friend in a remote Yorkshire village led me into a three-month immersion in one of Britain’s most remarkable forms of social care.
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Social care is not just a funding challenge – it’s a workforce challenge, too.
Any reforms which aim to make services work for people, not profits, must change who owns social care services.
The most common understanding of respite care in the UK involves cared-for people staying overnight in a residential facility.
Social care reform appears at the end of Labour’s key election promises for the NHS. The manifesto acknowledges the sector’s problems – but what about the solutions?
The Lib Dem manifesto addresses many of the key areas in social care that need reform. But it doesn’t say how the party would pay for them.
Most of the emergency government aid went to covering care homes’ loss of revenue. Care workers, meanwhile, kept the sector afloat through overtime.
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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Postdoctoral Researcher, Privatisation of Health and Social Care Services, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Professor of Evidence Based Intervention and Policy Evaluation, University of Oxford
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Senior Postdoctoral Researcher in Social Policy, University of Oxford
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Lecturer in Work and Organisation, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
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Professor of Business Ethics, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Research Fellow, School of Social Policy, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Health Care Law, University of Birmingham
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Associate Professor of Public Policy, Public Services International Research Unit, University of Greenwich
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Lecturer in Work and Organisations, University of Stirling
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Professeur des universités, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
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Emeritus Professor of Finance and Financial History, The Open University
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Associate Professor in Disability Studies, Coventry University
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Visiting Academic, The Open University
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Professor of Social Policy, University of Sheffield
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Researcher in Health Promotion, Leeds Beckett University