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• The Guardian view on the care home sector: trouble looms as rents rise | Editorial

  02-02-2023 19:25
  
  An inflationary environment makes care home collapses more probable, given the way they’re financing themselvesSocial policy/The care home sector risks sleepwalking into a crisis of rising costsWhen Britain’s largest care home operator, Southern Cross, collapsed in 2011, it heaped anxiety on elderly residents and ignited a debate about the role of private finance in the sector. The company had sold off most of its freehold properties to landlords, leaving it with a £230m annual
  
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• You can’t raise children on the cheap, so why is this government set on doing so? | Rebekah Pierre

  02-02-2023 18:49
  
  As a care leaver-turned-social worker, I’m appalled by the Tories’ paltry plans for the care sectorUnder normal circumstances, I would do anything for this government to stop lying. But on this occasion, following its response to the “once in a generation” review of children’s social care, I find myself hoping it has lied.We cannot wait another generation for the meaningful change we were promised. This strategy offers a pittance – just £200m split among
  
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• ‘I knew I wanted to stay here for the rest of my life’: how London got its first LGBTQ+ retirement community

  02-02-2023 15:00
  
  The idea is nothing new in other countries, but the UK has been slow to develop housing schemes for older LGBTQ+ people. Now it’s becoming apparent how many people want or need itWhen the clocks struck midnight on new year’s eve and rang in 2023, Steve Busby was on the rooftop of a fancy apartment block in central London watching fireworks light up the Thames. The weeks leading up to Christmas had been a heady mix of meals, drinks, celebrations and friends, most of whom live in the s
  
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• Children to be housed closer to family in overhaul of England’s social care system

  02-02-2023 01:01
  
  Changes in children’s social care, including earlier help for families, fall short of ‘full reset’ called for by adviserMinisters are to pledge that children taken into care in England will be placed close to their family and friends rather than being housed hundreds of miles away, under what is described as an ambitious overhaul of the struggling social services system.The commitment on care placements is one of a series of proposals aimed at reforming what the government has
  
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