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Privatisation, Precarity and Pandemic
Nick O'Neill 28/04/2020
“Minister ‘ashamed’ at waiting list for home help hours”“Body of pensioner lay undiscovered in house”“Home helps to ballot for strike action in dispute over pay restoration”“Provision of homecare supports a postcode lottery” You can be forgiven for thinking that these media headlines relate to the current COVID-19 crisis …
Who’s going to take care of our carers?
Sinead Pembroke 14/02/2017
As anyone who has a family-member in need of homecare knows, private homecare is very expensive. But like childcare, what do we really know about the …
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