Covid-19 and the Care Sector
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, BBC Social Affairs Correspondent
William Laing, Chairman of Laing Buisson
Jill Manthorpe, Professor of Social Work at…
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