Care Articles

Delegates at the World Economic Forum this week will be talking about the implications of the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’. The claim is that this revolution is characterised by the combination of different technologies, linking the physical, digital, and biological...

A report just published by the Institute for Fiscal Studies has shed light on the economic cost of poor provision for childhood mental health services. With an estimated 1.8 million households affected by childhood mental health problems, this is an issue that can no...

We need to stop the care crunch before it bites, says Karin Smyth During Labour’s time in government we understood that caring – the practice of looking after those unable to care for themselves, mainly on account of age or illness – was a social justice and an...

It is the poor – those for whom Labour claims to fight the hardest – who are the greatest victims of low-quality public services Public service reform has long been derided by some on the left as unnecessary, technocratic and harmful to public sector workers. Worse...