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Care workers

October 2024
  • People sitting in wheelchairs on a viewing platform look out over a varied area of plants and trees

    Leading UK provider of respite holidays for severely disabled people to close

    Revitalise says challenges ‘insurmountable’ due to local authority cuts, higher running costs and fall in donations
  • Male carer walking down a corridor with a female care home resident

    Record number of men in care work in England as immigration eases jobs crisis

    Sector has hired 185,000 foreign recruits in last two years, figures show, more than offsetting drop in British workers
  • She wears a velvet dress and a crown

    Enda Walsh delivers a five-star dazzler and Forced Entertainment make mischief at Dublin theatre festival

    Safe House is a haunting song cycle by Walsh and Anna Mullarkey while the experimental company’s Signal to Noise pushes language to breaking point
September 2024
  • Saša Uhlová

    Undercover in low-paid Europe
    Undercover as a home care worker in France: ‘The family count on me. The emotional strain makes me cry’

    Saša Uhlová
    In Marseille, I find agency bosses desperate to fill shifts – and families desperate to secure care for loved ones, says Czech journalist Saša Uhlová
August 2024
  • A woman pours tea from a teapot as an elderly man sits at a table.

    Alarm at failure to inspect 60% of England homecare providers in four years or longer

    Care leaders warn of serious safety risk as research reveals some providers have never been inspected
  • A resident sits doing puzzles at a care home in Vauxhall

    The Guardian picture essay
    Love, warmth and hard work: the heart of the UK care system – photo essay

    The photographer Halena Hucker has spent the last year interviewing care workers and photographing behind the scenes of the care sector

    • Lollipop review – impassioned, head-butting indictment of the social-care system

    • Sixfold rise in foreign care workers in UK complaining of exploitation

    • Defending working-class interests requires more than simply opposing immigration

      Kenan Malik
July 2024
  • People working at an NHS hospital

    Patients cannot trust CQC’s hospital safety ratings, says Wes Streeting

    Health secretary’s comments follow damning findings of interim report into state of English healthcare regulator
  • A care home worker carries a meal to a room

    Health groups call for social care minimum wage to avert staffing crisis in England

    Warning on ‘cycle of low wages’ comes as government pledges in king’s speech to introduce fair pay agreement

    • Hospital discharges limiting home care in England, councils say

    • The Children’s Inquiry review – exhilarating political musical about kids in care

    • Migrant nurse wins legal boost in unfair dismissal claim against UK firm

June 2024
  • Matt photographed in a housing estate.

    ‘I literally work to pay bills’: A care worker’s struggle to make ends meet

  • Care home staff helping an elderly resident

    Nearly half of England’s care workers get less than real living wage, study finds

  • A young care assistant helps a care home resident to put on a pullover as he sits in an armchair.

    Labour pledges to investigate treatment of migrant workers in care sector

  • Akhil Jenny (left) and Geo Ambooken (right): composite graphic image incorporating images of the two men alongside images of work permits and of a care worker at work.

    ‘He didn’t have a contract for me’: the Indian careworkers who paid agents to work in Britain

  • UK care agencies accused of exploiting foreign workers caught in debt traps

  • The Observer view on the social care crisis: whoever wins the election, it needs addressing urgently

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