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BBC Radio 4 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced BBC Home Service.

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File on 4: The Cost of Care

The Cost of Care

BBC Radio 4 - File on 4, The Cost of Care

An investigation into rising care costs and how the most vulnerable are paying the price

File on 4 investigates why some recipients of home social care are facing higher costs for lower levels of care during the pandemic.

File on 4 investigates the new challenges of providing home care during the Covid-19 pandemic - with some recipients seeing their care costs increased while their hours are reduced.

Exploring reports of financial assessments being neglected, and allegations that people's basic needs are not being met, we ask if some of society’s most vulnerable are being made to shoulder the cost of local council funding gaps.

Producer: Michael Cowan
Reporter: Claire Bolderson
Editor: Maggie Latham

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

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