These institutions play a vital role – despite what commentators, and sometimes politicians, say.
The OBR’s horrid forecasts of an output implosion and soaring unemployment will do nothing to quell Tory resistance to tougher Covid tiers.
The sixth piece in a ConHome series this week on the Prime Minister’s Reset Moment – and what should follow from it.
My front-line experience looking after the elderly showed me how a box-ticking culture is undermining carers.
It is based on the Swedish approach – but with much better protection of the vulnerable, especially in care homes.
Enough of wheeling in the same weary academics and experts, asking them to repeat the assessments they have given to all the previous politicians.
In the UK, our retirement communities sector provides about a tenth of the capacity per head as that in New Zealand and Australia.
Today, we present two Secretaries of State, a former Chancellor and a host of other great speakers across six events.
More tests, quick tracing, quarantine and mini-shutdowns if necessary (not the closure of whole cities and metropolitan areas) are the best-in-class solution.
If staff hear a constant flow of worst-case scenarios presented as the norm, it understandably affects their anxiety levels.
Marr challenges the First Minister over the SNP’s record on care home deaths, but she denies that there was “some particular problem” in Scotland.
The need for a technologically savvy workforce dominates debates, but what we need just as much is more “high touch” or empathetic jobs.
This ambitious business case is based on our experiences not only of recovering from the last downturn, but on the successes of the last three years.
Is the sequestering, incarceration and forgetting of these vulnerable children and young adults any better than in Georgian and Victorian times?
Any new system should direct incentives towards rewarding those who step down to retirement accommodation and those cared for by their descendants.