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• When Britain's care homes reward shareholders over staff, we need a new system | Amy Horton

  13-04-2023 11:19
  
  Care workers kept the industry going in the Covid years on low wages at great personal cost – yet many are still strugglingOur care system should be enabling people to live fulfilling lives, but each week brings new evidence that Britain’s social care system is unable to deliver this.Huge numbers of people are struggling to access support. The majority of people who deal with care services are unsatisfied with them. And the number of vacant posts in adult social care is the highest s
  
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• Council’s failures left disabled child in chronic pain for three years, watchdog finds

  13-04-2023 01:01
  
  Local government ombudsman rules that delay in finding suitable accommodation for family caused serious health risksA severely disabled child missed out on vital NHS surgery and was left in chronic pain for more than three years because a council failed to move them out of unsuitable housing despite repeated pleas from health professionals, a watchdog has ruled.Lambeth council in London was fined £20,000 by the local government and social care ombudsman for a catalogue of service failures
  
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