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• ‘Every one of us has a different story’: a historic portrait of care system success

  24-07-2022 09:00
  
  Poet Lemn Sissay, with the help of London’s Foundling Museum, has gathered 59 athletes, artists, CEOs and others who, like him, spent part of their childhoods in care. The result is an inspiring photograph for young people in care todayIntroduction by Claire Armitstead. Interviews by Killian Fox“I once was Christopher Goldsmith,” reads a poem, neatly typed out on one side of a piece of A4 paper. On the back another poem is handwritten, composed on the train into London this mor
  
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• Private UK care homes’ profit margins soared in pandemic, research finds

  24-07-2022 08:15
  
  Amid staffing crisis and warnings that system is ‘deeply flawed’ companies caring for elderly and disabled enjoyed financial successThe UK’s biggest care home chains saw their profit margins jump by 18% on average during the pandemic, new research shows, while the highest paid director’s salary surged to £2.3m.Amid a social care staffing crisis, and warnings from medical leaders that the system is “deeply flawed” and in need of urgent reform, analysis se
  
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