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Tim Yeo on new Community Care scheme (1993)

Genre

Interview

Health Minister, Tim Yeo on the new Community Care scheme which is to replace the Independent Living Fund. It will see local authorities undertake assessments of an individual’s needs and produce care...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

210 Reports Extra: The Elderly: I want to die at home (1983)

210 Reports Extra: The Elderly: I want to die at home. Presented by B.J. [?] Track 1- At the beginning of the Twentieth Century, the average life expectancy in Britain was 50 years. In contemporary times it...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Kids in care (1984)

A documentary about the kids that have to leave their family houses for some reason and go to live in care in other places

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

Pindown report (1991)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Health Minister Virginia Bottomley on the Pindown report by QC Allan Levy and child care expert Barbara Kahan into abusive child care regimes for children in care in Staffordshire.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Examples of child abuse in care homes (1978)

Genre

Discussion

Child abuse and sexual abuse are problems which affect many children in care. Here the speakers discuss the need for more money for abused children, to set up safe care homes, or move abused children to...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Elderly care (1979)

Genre

Discussion

Discussion concerning the care of the elderly, and the lack of regular and qualified home helpers.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

A victim of abuse in a care home speaks out about her ordeal (1978)

Genre

Interview

A victim of assault and battery who was living in a care home, tells her story of how she was abused by her house mother, and threatened with death if she told anyone. The victim complains that she received...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

TUC and private health care (1979)

Genre

Interview

Series of three interviews with unidentified male speakers about a disagreement over private health care, which was offered by an employer to members of the electricians’ union. The Trades Union Congress...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Child care survey report (1981)

Genre

Interview

Interview about a local survey conducted about childcare and women’s employment opportunities and report following analysis. Male speaker and interviewer not identified. Sound is in mono. Ends abruptly.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Pindown report (1991)

Genre

Interview

Interview with an unnamed male who made accusations of child abuse against his children’s home on the outcome of the Pindown report into child abuse in children’s homes in Staffordshire. Female...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio