Tag: social care
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Sociology in the News – The Ageing Population and The Crisis in Social Care
A couple of not very pleasant news-items which relate to the problems of the ‘ageing population’: The U.K. is on the brink of a social care crisis according to The Independent (November 2016) – with local authorities saying they could face a £2.6 billion funding gap by 2020. According to The Guardian (December 2016), this is because funding…