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You and Yours: Home Care; Fake Solicitors; Scottish House Prices

Home Care; Fake Solicitors; Scottish House Prices

04/03/2015

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, Home Care; Fake Solicitors; Scottish House Prices

Are 15-minute appointments long enough to provide decent care?

Consumer news. The programme talks to the home care provider that will not accept council work on the basis that they do not allow enough time to provide good care.

What's it like to be dependent on 15 minute appointments to provide all your home care? We talk to a family and the company that is turning down local authority work on the grounds that they don't allow enough time to do the job well.

Scams run by fake solicitors have cost some families hundreds of thousands of pounds. You and Yours investigates.

And the people looking to buy expensive homes in Scotland are rushing to get sales completed before new stamp duty rates come into effect on April 1st.

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