
Women’s Budget Group blog: Coronavirus and the past, present and future of social care
‘The failures of the government, limited infrastructure available to orchestrate a collective strategy as well as the precarity and low pay in the care sector
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‘The failures of the government, limited infrastructure available to orchestrate a collective strategy as well as the precarity and low pay in the care sector

‘An economic shock after Brexit and cuts to public services will hit women hardest.’ This is according to Mary-Ann Stephenson, Director of the Women’s Budget

In Theresa May’s first speech as Prime Minster, she proclaimed her Government’s mission was to tackle โburning injusticesโ in Britain. But preparing for Brexit has dominated Government thinking since then.
This is according to the May 2018 report on ‘burning injustices’ in Britain (pdf), byย Bright Blue and Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
In a June 2017 position paper, Just Fair and Doctors of the World identify data-sharing between NHS and the Home Office as a threat to patients’ human rights.
Leading equality and human rights barristers at Cloisters discuss the Government’s proposals on whiplash.

Susan Millns from the University of Sussex asks in a 2016 article whetherย Brexit has different implications for women and men.
In October 2015, the Scottish Recovery Network published a briefing paper on ‘Rights and Recovery in Mental Health’.
The National Conversation on Health Inequalities is a Public Health England programme about reducing differences in health.
Rachel Krys blogs about how the debate is being framed around accessible transport: I was a pushchair user for a few years, between 2005 and
Equally Ours’ Director Nicky Hawkins blogs about the importance of human rights in care:ย Today the Care Quality Commission announced that a new โmum testโ