Social care: only a fully public system will do
Recent Covid data has underlined the alarming state of social care in the UK. Yet the biggest union of social care workers, Unison, has responded by allying with the very people overseeing this dire situation.
Not that far off a quarter of the UKâs virus-connected deaths so far, over 26,000, have been in care homes. That includes over 7,000 this year.