File on 4 Investigates
File on 4 Investigates
BBC Radio 4
The Cost of Care
36 minutes Posted Jun 8, 2021 at 7:40 pm.
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File on 4 investigates the new challenges of providing home care during the Covid-19 pandemic - with some recipients seeing their care costs increased while their hours are reduced.

Exploring reports of financial assessments being neglected, and allegations that people's basic needs are not being met, we ask if some of society’s most vulnerable are being made to shoulder the cost of local council funding gaps.

Producer: Michael Cowan

Reporter: Claire Bolderson
Editor: Maggie Latham