Care workers
The Guardian view on carers: those who do the caring deserve care themselves | Editorial
Editorial: There remains a vast tension between the importance of care work, both paid and unpaid, and how little recognition it gets
Editorial
24, May, 2023 @6:08 PM
UK care home firm under fire as children forced to move hundreds of miles
Private provider criticised for uprooting more than 60 vulnerable children, with some transferred from south-east England to Scotland
Tom Wall
21, May, 2023 @8:00 AM
‘I was given days to find myself a place to live’: autistic teenager on care home eviction
Callum McDonald describes how he and others coped when made to leave their settled homes by the private, profit-making owner
Tom Wall
14, May, 2023 @9:00 AM
Saving Face: inside the arresting office drama about invisible illness
In his new show, Si Rawlinson mixes hip-hop, contemporary dance and physical theatre to explore how we present ourselves in the workplace
Caroline Butterwick
10, May, 2023 @4:11 PM
‘Heartbreaking’: private care homes accused of failing UK children due to closures
Staff warn vulnerable children may be harmed as they struggle to find placements after 28 homes given deadline to shut by chain
Tom Wall
30, Apr, 2023 @6:00 AM
English council bosses demand urgent help for ‘exhausted’ unpaid carers
Social services directors set out reform plan and say care system has never been so close to breaking point
Robert Booth Social affairs correspondent
26, Apr, 2023 @5:00 AM
Learning-disabled and autistic people are being neglected and tortured. How much longer? | John Harris
Across the UK, revelations of institutional abuse keep mounting up, yet people are still being denied basic respect, says Guardian columnist John Harris
John Harris
24, Apr, 2023 @7:00 AM
Half of UK public fear family would not be well looked after in care homes
Survey also reveals nine out of 10 older people believe there are not enough care staff in the country
Robert Booth Social affairs correspondent
24, Apr, 2023 @5:00 AM
Care home where staff were filmed abusing 88-year-old is still breaking rules
Inspectors find lack of trained staff at Reigate Grange and medicines not being administered properly
Robert Booth Social affairs correspondent
24, Apr, 2023 @5:00 AM
Ruthie Henshall: ‘While MPs were drinking and snogging, I was waving at Mum through a care home window’
Since Covid, the actor has been fighting for a legal change, determined no one should have to die alone. She discusses Partygate, rule-breaking – and getting drunk with King Charles
Sam Wollaston
10, Apr, 2023 @5:00 AM
Halving social care workforce funding in England an ‘insult’, ministers told
Charities criticise new plans, described as a ‘shadow of the reform needed’ with the care system ‘on the precipice’
Christy Cooney
04, Apr, 2023 @5:00 AM
Hunger, neglect, unnecessary sedation: this is reality inside profit-hungry UK care homes | Leandra Ashton
We can’t look away any longer, says Leandra Ashton, co-founder of the People’s Care Watchdog
Leandra Ashton
27, Mar, 2023 @3:02 PM
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