Editorial: the government’s mismanagement of the Covid-19 emergency in residential homes has exposed deeper issues of neglect and false priorities
The litany of government failures on social care during the Covid-19 emergency has become grimly familiar. But the mistakes bear repetition, as the latest figures record that close to 15,000 care home residents have died in England and Wales from the disease.
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