It’s all over the shop. The Making of Derek, bald bloke, Channel 4 2013
That wig. I did tell you. ibid.
I love working here. But I’m always sad. ibid. Derek
And they’re constantly shitting themselves. Derek – The Special, Hannah’s objection to babies, Channel 4 2014
Supervisor: Some of these are quite mental.
Derek: Yeah, roast dinner and bingo. ibid.
I don’t go along with the mumbo jumbo side of it. ibid. Hannah
Butterflies are the gayest insect. ibid. assistant
Not a bad idea – falling from the back of the flats. Better than living to be honest with you. ibid. Kev in hospital
Rule #1: Always get up. ibid. Derek
Technically he isn’t disabled. Just lazy. ibid. Kev mum, re Kev’s dad
You’re a selfish cunt. ibid. Hannah to Kev
You’re going to stop drowning your sorrows and get through the day sober. And you will lay awake at night wishing you were dead. And you’ll wake up in the morning wishing you were dead. But you’re just going to get through it. And that’ll keep going on, all right? You’ll keep wishing you were dead … ibid.
The cares that infest the day
Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs
And as silently steal away. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Day is Done 1844
It is not because things are difficult that we do not care; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. Seneca
Tonight: the cost of caring. And the new legislation which is set to change everything. Tonight: Looking After Mum and Dad, ITV 2014
The Care Bill, currently being ushered through parliament, promises to put a £72,000 limit. ibid.
This is a story about the forgotten, the invisible and the most vulnerable amongst us. It’s a programme about the people who often struggle on the margins of society, and who use the NHS again and again. It’s also about the people who care for them. And about a model of care that could revolutionise our NHS. Tonight: Frontline Care: Saving the NHS? ITV 2018
Hand in hand with poverty comes a whole range of social and medical issues. ibid.
Voices from inside our locked-down care homes. The cost of being locked down for your own protection. And the fear and anger at still being unable to hug young ones … With over 80,000 killed by the pandemic in Britain, over a quarter died in our care homes. Tonight: Care Homes: The Long Year Alone, ITV 2021
At its peak, up to 500 residents were dying every day. ibid.
Kicked out of their care homes. The vulnerable evicted. Families left to deal with their relatives’ decline. So should care home residents have more rights? Tonight: Elderly & Evicted: A Care Home Crisis? ITV 2023
If can be far easier than you might expect for a care home to tell a resident that they need to leave. ibid.
Every year thousands of care home residents are told they have to leave their home and find somewhere else to live. ibid.
Britain’s young carers: the terrible burden being placed on the most vulnerable. The new figures the reveal the shocking scale of the pressure on young people. Tonight: Young Carers: A Hidden Crisis, ITV 2023
Children in their thousands are spending the evening caring for those they love. It’s been described as a hidden crisis. ibid.
Unpaid carers: the real cost of caring. The sacrifices made. What more could be done to help? … There are thought to be about five million people providing free care in England and Wales. Tonight: Lindsey Burrow: Who Cares for Our Carers, ITV 2024
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead, attributed, cited Donald Keys
I am the one in ten
A number on a list
I am the one in ten
Even though I don’t exist
Nobody knows me
Even though I’m always there
A statistic, a reminder
Of a world that doesn’t care. UB40, I Am a One in Ten
Who cares? Nobody else seems to these days; why the sodding hell should I? Boys from the Black Stuff s1e2: Moonlighter ***** security guard to Dixie Dean, BBC 1982
Some people care too much. I think it’s called love. A A Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
Tonight: home-care companies in crisis because they can’t recruit enough staff. We meet hard-pressed carers on zero-hours contracts. We discover nearly 100 councils have had home-care contracts handed back to them. Panorama: Britain’s Home-Care Crisis, BBC 2017
Who will care when we are older and need help or young and disabled? In the years ahead more and more of us will need support as we live longer. But the care system is in crisis. Panorama: Crisis in Care, BBC 2019
Each year local authorities spend nearly £15 billion on providing people with day to day support. ibid.
Since 2010 the government has cut the money it gives all councils in England by nearly two-thirds. ibid.
More than 22,000 residents of UK have died with Coronavirus. Panorama has filmed at the height of the pandemic following staff, residents and families in two care homes. As they struggled to get the help they need, suffer agonising loss, and witness remarkable survival, this is the reality of life on the front line. Panorama: The Forgotten Front Line, BBC 2020
‘It just never occurred to me that I would be going in with a healthy baby and she would end up fighting for her life.’ Panorama: Maternity Scandal: Fighting for the Truth, mother, BBC 2022
It’s one of the biggest scandals in the history of the NHS. Babies who should have been perfectly healthy suffered permanent harm or died. Failure after failure over two decades … and the families forced to fight to uncover the truth. ibid.
What happened at Morecambe Bay should have led to improvements of maternity services across the UK. Poor care had contributed to the deaths of eleven babies and a mother at Furness General Hospital. An enquiry in 2015 found a dysfunctional maternity unit and heard about an overemphasis on normal birth at any cost. ibid.
Undercover in a care home desperately short of staff. Workers recruited from overseas under pressure. They say they’ve been exploited. Panorama: Care Workers Under Pressure, BBC 2023
‘My name’s Rebecca. As a child my dad abused me. 10 years ago when I was 13 social workers realised it wasn’t safe for me live at home any more. I never lived with my family again. Instead, the local council became my parents. My life as I knew it stopped. Although I was safe from the abuse, I lost my family. There are thousands of people like me. Children who grew up in other people’s houses or care homes and all too often end up homeless.’ Kicked Out: From Care to Chaos, Rebecca Southworth, BBC 2017
Something has gone seriously wrong and I want to know why. ibid.
Why do so many people like me rescued from abuse or neglect or a parent who couldn’t look after them grow up to find themselves sleeping rough, involved in crime or selling their bodies on the street? ibid.
It was that constant feeling of numbness. ibid.
Family homes across the country are disappearing. Sold to pay for long-term care. So why in some areas can you get the same support for free? Dispatches: How to Avoid the Dementia Tax, Channel 4 2017
Anyone with more than £23,250 in assets must pay towards that. If they go into care, then the value of the house counts towards the cost provided no-one is living in it. ibid.
We go undercover in two of the biggest companies running our Children’s homes. We find vulnerable children goaded by their carers. Children shouted at. Homes that charge thousands of pounds a week but allowed smoking by underage children in their care. And a home where the senior care worker says the place is in chaos. Exposure: Who Cares? Children’s Homes Undercover, ITV 2017
‘These children are invisible; they have no voice and deserve better.’ ibid.
Workers told us of worryingly poor standards. ibid.
You’ll feel better soon. I’ll look after you. Killing Eve s2e8: You’re Mine, Villanelle to Eve, BBC 2019
On Monday July 13th [2015: at 8:58 am jailers went to cell 95 and observed Miss Bland hanging from the privacy partition in her cell. Say Her Name: The Life & Death of Sandra Bland ***** HBO/Sky Documentaries 2020
Sandra Bland Rest In Power. Arrested for Traffic Violation: Killed in Police Custody. (Murder & Suicide & Police & Protest & Hanging & Arrest & People & Activism & Texas & Miscarriages of Justice & Racism & Prison & Care & Custody) ibid. protest banner
‘You just slammed me head into the ground. Don’t you even care about that?’ ibid. Bland arrest filmed after rozzers’ assault
Cell 95: ‘Where she was didn’t have cameras … You have a thirty-gallon trash can in the inmates’ cell that gives her access to a plastic bag. If she was in as much pain as she said she was in, I just don’t see how she could have tied that perfect – very perfect – noose.’ ibid. family
‘Step out or I will remove you … I’m gonna yank you outta here … You are under arrest … I’m gonna drag you outta there.’ ibid.
‘That man [arresting rozzer] slapped her. You can hear it.’ ibid. lawyer
‘You are about to break my wrist! Can you stop?’ ibid. on arrest