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As a care leaver, I've felt neglected and unsupported during the Covid crisis

08-09-2020 12:11 via theguardian.com

When I got sick and had to self-isolate, I was without help. My electricity was cut off, I ran out of food and I had to skip meals Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageWhen lockdown began, nearly all my university classmates went back to live with their families. But I don’t have the emotional support or safety net of a family. I didn’t see anyone I knew for 13 weeks.As an autistic care leaver, the hardest part of dealing with the Covid pandemic has been

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Royal Star & Garter couple celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary

08-09-2020 09:22 via feedproxy.google.com

A Solihull couple living at Royal Star & Garter are celebrating their 70th wedding anniversary.

Harry and Sue Southern enjoyed a party thrown by the Tudor Coppice care home and will receive a special message from Her Majesty The Queen on reaching their platinum anniversary on Wednesday 12tht August.

The couple, originally from Bolton, met on a rambling weekend in Derbyshire in 1947, shortly after WWII veteran Harry had left the Navy. They tied the knot on 12 August 1950 and had

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Care home residents’ private audience with TV star

08-09-2020 07:30 via feedproxy.google.com

Residents at a Perthshire care home were treated to a private audience with award-winning actor Julie Hesmondhalgh as part of an art-in-lockdown initiative from touring theatre company Paines Plough which saw live theatre come to a care home.

Julie swapped hard-hitting dramas like Happy Valley and Broadchurch for online plays for the elderly when she performed a virtual monologue for residents at Balhousie Pitlochry in Highland Scotland.

The residents and staff at the home, p

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'They were withering away': Why did Colin Harris and nine others die in a Skye care home?

08-09-2020 07:00 via theguardian.com

Colin died of Covid-19 at Home Farm care home in May. His wife had to wait outside his room while he took his last breath. Now his family is pushing for answersCovid-19 did not come to Skye for a long time, so much so that the people there thought they had escaped it. But Zoe Docherty knew better. Driving to her at-home visits on the Scottish island, the 27-year-old care worker heard a drumbeat of dread, a steady rat-a-tat, all through the months of March and April and into May.“I knew it

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Covid-19 has exposed the reality of Britain: poverty, insecurity and inequality | Richard Horton

08-09-2020 07:00 via theguardian.com

Only a fairer society can lay the foundations for economic recovery, and build resilience to future crisesAfter the catastrophe of the past eight months, a new political consensus seems to be emerging. The government has to get a tighter grip of the country and the crisis we are facing. Taking back control now means that Boris Johnson must change his management style. Instead of remaining an aloof chairman of his government, he must become its hands-on chief executive.Ministers need to discover

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