EPISODE · Jun 8, 2021 · 36 MIN
The Cost of Care
from File on 4 Investigates · host BBC Radio 4
File on 4 investigates the new challenges of providing home care during the Covid-19 pandemic - with some recipients seeing their care costs increased while their hours are reduced.Exploring reports of financial assessments being neglected, and allegations that people's basic needs are not being met, we ask if some of society’s most vulnerable are being made to shoulder the cost of local council funding gaps.Producer: Michael Cowan Reporter: Claire Bolderson Editor: Maggie Latham
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File on 4 investigates the new challenges of providing home care during the Covid-19 pandemic - with some recipients seeing their care costs increased while their hours are reduced.Exploring reports of financial assessments being neglected, and allegations that people's basic needs are not being met, we ask if some of society’s most vulnerable are being made to shoulder the cost of local council funding gaps.Producer: Michael Cowan Reporter: Claire Bolderson Editor: Maggie Latham
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