SOLOMON HUGHES examines the shift in Labour rhetoric on racism and Reform UK – and what’s driving it
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
A new report says the government’s purchase of US nuclear-armed aircraft prioritises transatlantic politics over military needs and ignored its own Strategic Defence Review, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
MAT COWARD reminds us that the resilience of ordinary folk can turn the tables on the mighty and 'entitled'
JACK DAVIDSON explains the motivation behind the UCU strike action at the University of Sheffield
DYLAN MURPHY focuses on the big tech oligarchs’ war against workers and how AI and robotics could destroy 100 million US jobs by 2035
Davie and Turness are two scalps for Trump, Farage and Johnson, writes STEPHEN ARNELL
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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