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Care worker and eco-scientist face Home Office deportation
A leading renewable energy scientist and a care worker, who are married with three children, are facing deportation to Sri Lanka where the academic escaped torture. Source: Care Feeds
A third of care home residents were self-funders before pandemic, ONS reveals
Some 37 per cent of care home residents were paying for their own care before the pandemic, while the majority (63 per cent) were state-funded, according to new figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Source: Care Feeds
Social care needs to be funded by government, 'not by massively hiking council tax'
Social care in England needs an urgent injection of funding from the government, says Age UK, not a hike in council tax which will lead to hugely inflated council tax bills in some areas and a postcode lottery of care. Source: Care Feeds
Care home residents who met at school celebrate 70th wedding anniversary
Two residents at a care home in Kent, who met aged 16, have celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary by sitting down to afternoon tea. Source: Care Feeds