care

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Striking care workers at St Monica’s, with trade union organiser Josh Connor

At a time where each day brings new stories of industrial action, Neil Maggs speaks to Josh Connor, a Unison staffer standing with care workers on the picket line.

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Aphra Evans, Neil Maggs and Adam Cantwell-Corn

Features

Carers strike to protest pay cuts at St Monica’s Trust care homes

Aphra Evans
Aphra Evans

Reports

Image of young girl looking sad

More children in care are being housed outside Bristol as Covid fallout bites

Alex Turner
Alex Turner

Coronavirus in Bristol

Full toll of care home deaths in Bristol revealed as regulator finally makes data transparent

Criticism of government’s handling of crisis reignites as the Care Quality Commission releases data on the number of Covid-related deaths at individual care homes. 

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Scrutinising institutions

Clifton care home loses third of residents during Covid-19 outbreak

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Coronavirus in Bristol

Revealed: Bristol care workers speak out amid confusion and scramble for PPE during covid-19 outbreaks

Matty Edwards Priyanka Raval
Matty Edwards and Priyanka Raval

Coronavirus in Bristol

Care work: What next for the forgotten frontline of coronavirus?

As care homes are a new epicentre of the pandemic, we celebrate the historically overlooked, undervalued care sector and ask what needs to change after the pandemic.

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Priyanka Raval and Matty Edwards

Coronavirus in Bristol

The difficulty of having a parent in a Bristol care home during lockdown

Care home staff are working harder than ever, but Cable member Kate Oliver reflects on how visiting restrictions and worries about infections are affecting her and her 97-year-old mum.

Kate Oliver

Bristol and Beyond

Bristol care workers battle charity over ‘unfair’ pay for sleep-in shifts

Bristol Care Workers Network are protesting against learning disability charity Mencap, in a legal battle that could lead to £20 million in back pay.

Jack Newcombe

City

Elderly and disabled people’s bus access under threat

‘Keep Bristol Moving’ is a key aim of the Mayor, but low income disabled and elderly people could be left without the means to travel...

Alec Saelens
Alec Saelens

Features

Who cares for carers?

Dorothy Cook is full-time carer of her husband Malvin. She discusses the ups and downs of caring, but has her life changed since the new...

Dawn Gani