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Ciaran Jenkins
C4Ciaran
Susan is a home carer.She feeds, bathes and toilets the elderly in their homes. Today half her clients had #COVID.She takes two buses to collect PPE. On her day off.
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Munki-Seven
munkihanger
A thread for carers. As a disabled woman in my 50's, I was allowed to apply for a bungalow, fully disabled adapted, bloody wonderful and I love it. I didn't
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Ben Pile
clim8resistance
Fascinating piece in the newspaper that also publishes Carole Cadwalladr and an unstoppable torrent of green demonology.https://twitter.com/jimalkhalili/status/1252471821057896451 This familiar argument is equivalent to the idea that sin cannot be do
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KB, do you love me? are you riding?
BlytheByName
Maybe this is because 100% of my days are sick days, but, five days’ annual sick (OR carer’s - don’t get sick, carers!) leave seems ... impossibly low?Is it? Or
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Sinéad Gleeson
sineadgleeson
Book festivals with audiences are vital, but many people tell me @CuirtFestival online is their first festival/something they couldn't physically attend. I'd be happy to pay to watch authors online
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Emily Baughan
Emily_Baughan
the exemption to local restrictions for 'informal caring arrangements' is a good thing - the total prohibition on sharing care outside households in lockdown 1 (for most, outside nuclear families)
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Grattan Institute
GrattanInst
1/ Would you work for nothing? Nope? Thought so. Could this be why so many Australian mums work part-time? Tax, welfare and childcare costs mean that full time work for
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Lee Morris
LeeMorris_93
Tarts da is legally blind, it’s boss, he’s like a free pass. Eveyone moves out the way, starts calling him sir, opening doors for him. There’s been people pure Charlied
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Alistair Sloan
alistair_sloan
We now have the Scottish Amendment Regulations, made at 11am yesterday and in force from today. They are here: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2020/164/contents/made They make a number of technical changes that are not
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Alex Yoxall
AlexanderYoxall
1) It hasn't been easy since the coronavirus forced our charity to drastically develop alternate methods of support for all those affected by stroke. 2) We closed our stroke information
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Zakra Yasin
zakra_yasin
We want learning from @BetterStartBfd to influence parents, practitioners and policy makers. Read this thread for updates from the programme sharing our experiences as we develop innovative ways to give
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Rachael Swindon
Rachael_Swindon
Struggling to care for your family is no fun, asking for help makes me feel ashamed that I have to. People think I do it to live some sort of
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Fiona Fisher
GallusEffie
For all the people suddenly realising the crisis in social care...it gives me zero pleasure to say we told you so.If someone doing a so-called McJob can earn over 4
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Ciaran Jenkins
C4Ciaran
Twenty two residents died here. The majority of staff have still not been tested.https://twitter.com/channel4news/status/1260271735896707072 The virus likely tore through Highgate Care Home in February. We were all living our lives
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Lewis Goodall
lewis_goodall
COVID & DEMENTIA (pt2)In June I reported on the dire situ w/regard to covid & dementia (almost 1/3 of covid deaths had the disease)For many carers and cared for situ
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Lewis Goodall
lewis_goodall
SICK PAY AND CARE HOMESSpent the last two days talking to carers about one specific issue.I've heard it a lot in the last 2 months and it's still a problem.It's
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