by Ramzy Baroud
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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
US-based labour and social movements authors and organisers Robert Ovetz and James Tracy interview DANIEL GROSS about his new book, Unions of Our Own: Eight Building Blocks to Change Work and the World
Innovation in biotechnology is changing how we conceive of meat, say ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT of SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
JOHN CALLOW introduces the work of Geoffrey Trease, who placed ordinary people at the centre of his historical fiction for children, creating adventurous stories to inspire the possibilities of social change
Is the Scottish government in favour of drilling or not? Evasiveness and incoherence are the order of the day, argues KENNY MacASKILL
The Isle of Wight’s Victorian holiday boom drew visitors from across Europe, including the founders of scientific socialism, writes KEITH FLETT
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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