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Post-Brexit care worker shortage looms
Having good social care is a life and death situation for disabled people and they must not become collateral damage in pursuit of the removal of freedom of movement, writes LINDA BURNIP
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
IN OCTOBER 2020 the government promised the House of Lords that an independent report into the ending of free movement and the social care workforce would be completed within six months — by the end of May 2021.
Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) is very concerned that as yet no plans have even been put in place for this to happen and the end of applications to the EU settlement scheme, which has been fraught with problems due to the pandemic, has now ended.
The social care sector includes a variety of employment options. The vast majority of social care workers work in care and nursing homes, or in domiciliary care where the workers go into disabled and older people’s own homes, for short periods of time to provide social care support.
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