Covid-19 and the Care Sector
Have the mounting deaths in care homes from the coronavirus exposed cracks in a sector in which reform has long been called for but little has been delivered?
Have the mounting deaths exposed cracks in the way we deliver care to some of our most vulnerable people?
David Aaronovitch looks at how the system is structured and funded. and why it sometimes struggles to gain the political attention it needs.
This is a sector in which people have called for reform has for decades but very little has been delivered.
How have other countries care systems coped during the pandemic and what lessons could we learn?
Contributors:
Alison Holt, 麻豆社 Social Affairs Correspondent
William Laing, Chairman of Laing Buisson
Jill Manthorpe, Professor of Social Work at King's College London
Adelina Comas-Herrera, researcher at the London School of Economics
Natasha Curry, Acting Deputy Director of Policy, Nuffield Trust
Producers: Luke Radcliff, Sally Abrahams and Rosamund Jones
Editor: Jasper Corbett
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