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You and Yours: Care isolation, Match day hospitality, Blocked broadband

11/03/2022

Care isolation, Match day hospitality, Blocked broadband

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, Care isolation, Match day hospitality, Blocked broadband

Protecting people in care from isolation. Football match day hospitality. Rural broadband.

The families demanding a change in the law to better protect relatives in care. Football match day VIP-hospitality. The barriers to getting decent broadband in rural areas.

Every vulnerable person in care should have a legal right to a "care supporter" such as relative or a friend who's allowed to visit them without any restrictions.
That's what a group of cross party MPs, peers, campaigners and families want the Government to enshrine in law because of fears that loneliness, isolation and neglect are a bigger risk now than Covid. Since March last year one visitor can be designated as an Essential Care Giver for a family member or friend in a home. We hear from a man who visits his wife in a care home. We also speak to Helen Wildbore, director of the Relatives and Residents Association, and Nadra Ahmed, Executive Chair of the National Care Association, which represents small and medium size care providers.

We report on how every day fans are now getting a look-in when it comes to getting access to executive lounges on football match days. Access can still come at a big price but clubs of all sizes now trying to entice fans into paying for VIP treatment on match day.  Aston Villa has unveiled plans for a major expansion of hospitality facilities at its Villa Park stadium, while Accrington Stanley has just opened a £2.5 million hospitality venue. We speak to Dr Dan Plumley, a senior lecturer in sport finance at Sheffield Hallam University, and Kyle Mattison who runs The Padded Seat TikTok account.

There can be lots of barriers to getting decent broadband in rural areas but people living in the village of Northleigh in Devon have an unusual problem. They say 
an organisation set up to deliver better internet connections is getting in the way - by stopping them from getting their own broadband put in. Our reporter, Jon Douglas, has more on the story.



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