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• My Name Is Leon review – a small miracle of child’s-eye-view TV

  10-06-2022 23:30
  
  Kit de Waal’s award-winning novel about a boy in foster care becomes a wise, touching and magical drama packed with stellar talentChild’s-eye view TV – especially the kind made for adult audiences – should be approached with caution. It’s been clear ever since Kevin started eyeing up Winnie on The Wonder Years that the cringe potential is just too great. Happily, this one-off drama for BBC Two has sidestepped all the usual quicksand traps of sentimentality and nosta
  
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• The stark choice between a life with care or no life at all | Letters

  10-06-2022 18:48
  
  It’s difficult to feel positive about needing assistance when coming to terms with a disability, says Fiona Weir. Plus a letter from Louise Hardwick and Molly HardwickLucy Webster does a brilliant job of rewriting the narrative around care for disabled people, making it clear that such support is empowering for many (Some people think they would rather die than have help brushing their teeth – but care is not tragic, 6 June). I applaud her. And I envy her.The narrative unfolding for
  
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• A five-point plan alone won’t undo decades of neglect for Australia’s aged care sector | Sarah Holland-Batt

  10-06-2022 02:16
  
  Labor must move beyond the slogans and make the policy reforms necessary to improve life for older Australians in careHistorically, aged care barely rates a mention in federal elections. Conventional wisdom says aged care isn’t a vote winner, so the spinners and speechwriters get away with shallow platitudes about better care for our elders and politicians are rarely asked to pony up any policy specifics.This hollowness at the heart of our policymaking has allowed neglect, abuse and poor c
  
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