Steven HeywoodMay 18, 2024
'Systemic dysfunction forces local authorities to make expensive last-minute “spot purchases” of residential care, rather than, for example, building regional care cooperatives, which would forecast and absorb demand, investing in public or not-for-profit provision and enabling children to stay close to home. For this and many other reasons, the review concluded that “providing care for children should not be based on profit”. But the government won’t listen.'
#CareCrisis
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/18/child-care-cost-year-wealth-funds-councils-britain-residential?CMP=share_btn_url
How can a child in care cost £281,000 a year? Ask the wealth funds that have councils over a barrel

Children crying out for stability are paying the highest price for Britain’s chaotic and exploitative residential care, says the Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian
Emeritus Prof Christopher MayMar 1, 2024

As the #LabourParty's commitment to the #greentranstion wavers, and the #carecrisis continues, its worth revisiting this Women's Budget Group report from over a year ago about how re-engineering the economy around #environmental priorities would also underpin a re-enhanced economy of care.

Not all recommendations could be easily/immediately implemented (some require significant structural transformation) but this *does* offer a different policy vision, which we need.

https://wbg.org.uk/analysis/greenandcaringeconomy/

A Green and Caring Economy - Womens Budget Group

Womens Budget Group
Sobrevivir al DescalabroFeb 9, 2024

💜💚 🎙️ Our interview with YayoHerrero now with English subtitles!

Feminism and ecology, interdependence, education, anthropocentrism and care crisis. Life at the centre rather than money 💞🌱.

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#feminism #ecology #careCrisis #anthropocentrism #humanrights #Ecofeminism #VandanaShiva #Love #Crisis #TransitionEcology

Entrevistamos a Yayo Herrero (ENG subtitles)

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Emeritus Prof Christopher MayNov 28, 2023

The rise of the multi-generational household is a key response to the #housingcrisis, the #costoflivingcrisis and in some cases the #carecrisis.

Its nothing new and indeed across the world is often a preferred model of #household management, but sometimes the costs & difficulties of such arrangements are not as well appreciated as they might be.

Here, Prabash Edirisingha `(NorthumbriaU) set out the shape of the issues for @TheConversationUK

https://theconversation.com/profiles/prabash-edirisingha-1473040

Prabash Edirisingha

Prabash Edirisingha — Profile on The Conversation

The Conversation
Gladwyn d’SouzaAug 2, 2023

https://www.hollandsentinel.com/story/opinion/columns/2023/08/01/citizens-climate-lobby-the-heart-of-climate-justice/70411503007/

#Empowering #women, supporting women, and investing in women is the key to building #climateresilience and equity in all communities — locally and worldwide. It is this idea that is at the heart of #climatejustice.
#CareCrisis #foodinsecurity #climaterefugee #keepitintheground #RenewablesAreDeflationary #GreenNewDealForHealth #ParisAligned

Citizens' Climate Lobby: The heart of climate justice

Empowering women, supporting women, and investing in women is the key to building climate resilience and equity in all communities — locally and worldwide.

The Holland Sentinel
AutisticMumTo3Jul 5, 2023

Care crisis: Why migrant labour and AI won’t solve our problems | openDemocracy
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/emily-kenway-care-crisis-failing-bots-migrant-labour-work/

#CareCrisis
#CheapLabour
#AI
#Carers
#Disability
#UnpaidCarers
#Migrants
#MigrantWorkers

EMILY KENWAY: Cheap labour and AI won’t fix our care crisis

People are living longer, with more care needs. We must rebalance our relationship to work, the planet and each other

openDemocracy
MichaelJul 4, 2023
Cheap labour and AI won’t fix our #carecrisis. Here’s a real solution https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/emily-kenway-care-crisis-failing-bots-migrant-labour-work/
EMILY KENWAY: Cheap labour and AI won’t fix our care crisis

People are living longer, with more care needs. We must rebalance our relationship to work, the planet and each other

openDemocracy
Emeritus Prof Christopher MayJun 5, 2023

An unpaid #carer tells it like it is: 'it’s galling to hear #JeremyHunt talk about getting people back to work while doing nothing to address this issue'...

Yup & you knew I was going to say this: yet more declaratory #politics from the #tories.

While this is heartfelt as Denise Wilkins knows, she is far from alone in her plight. This is what the #carecrisis look like!

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/05/social-care-jeremy-hunt-unpaid-carers

Dear Jeremy Hunt, I’d love to get a job. But thanks to your social care crisis, I can’t

I had no other choice but to give up my career to become my mother’s full-time unpaid carer – and there are millions like me, says carer Denise Wilkins

The Guardian
Jesse F BallengerMay 2, 2023

No one wants to read about this. Everyone should.
#xp #NursingHomes #CareCrisis

"The neglect in nursing facilities is no accident" https://wbur.fm/3oR6s1r

The neglect in nursing facilities is no accident | Cognoscenti

Nursing facilities are a multi-billion-dollar industry that can be inefficient, cruel and lethal, writes Margaret Morganroth Gullette.

WBUR
DrDMacaskillApr 1, 2023
Turning #hope into reality: social care's aspiration. #careaboutcare #socialcare #ScottishGovernment #dòchas #carecrisis. https://scottishcare.org/turning-hope-into-reality-social-cares-aspiration/
Turning hope into reality: social care's aspiration.

When I was growing up, I was often accused of being a dreamer – of spending too much time imagining a world of possibility that never seemed to come true. As I have aged, I

Scottish Care