Rising prices means many people working in the care sector are struggling to make ends meet.
Samantha and Melissa work for Leeds-based Springfield Health Care, which provides care in people's own homes and runs care homes across Yorkshire and the north of England."It's costing sometimes in excess of £30-£40 a week in order to be able to drive to their clients to deliver the quality service that they want to deliver... but some of them just can't afford to do it.
Almost three-quarters of social care directors in England are reporting increasing requests for help.A total of 82% of Adass members said they were worried about the stability of the care market by 2023/24. She adds that if they filled the rooms with local authority-funded residents, they would lose money because of the high cost of heating the rooms and the difficulties of recruiting staff.
In one day, three people who between them have decades of experience of the workings of different parts of the care system told me they had never been more worried than they are now. When we see a queue of ambulances outside a hospital, we take that as a sign of the pressures on the NHS, but it is also a sign of a wider health and care system that is not working.
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