Podcasts Other File on 4 The Cost of Care

The Cost of Care

Published: June 8, 2021, 7:40 p.m.

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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\\u2019s most vulnerable are being made to shoulder the cost of local council funding gaps.

Producer: Michael Cowan\\nReporter: Claire Bolderson\\nEditor: Maggie Latham

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