What happened on 27th May 2023 - with your comments in the Web

On Saturday, the Sky News threatened Britons with a collapse of social care system without unpaid carers who contribute the equivalent of more than four million jobs in the sector.

Health think tank The King's Fund made the claim as it called for more support for the nation's army of uncompensated workers - who include 1.5 million people in England alone who provide 50 or more hours of care a week to loved ones.

The readers also admitted that "as far as I'm aware the social work system is slowly collapsing even with the unpaid carers."

"The simple problem is carers are not paid enough even though the companies that employ carers charge the world.

I have first hand experience of this my mum has worked in care for years and for the work she was doing and an absolute pittance run ragged and always going above and beyond because she won't see people suffer alone.

Different care company same location were asked how much it would be to have carers come in 3 times a day for my Gran on my dads side who recently passed away and what the agency wanted to charge was astronomical.

The government can't simply throw money at the problem unless it can be guaranteed that the money is going to filter down to those doing the actual work. If you compensate and acknowledge the properly the fantastic work that these people do on the front line of the care system you will over time begin to fix the labour shortage.

Additionally Gemma if your out there are reading this by some miracle you are an absolute star and you went above and beyond to the last day to make sure Gran was comfortable and although by the end she could not express it I know not a second of your time was unappreciated you are worth far more than you would ever ask for."

And also opted for paid ratios.

This day, the Fox News reported that tens of thousands of British residents died last year without a clear cause of death, raising alarms for health professionals in the country. 

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) released figures on excess deaths, which are deaths of people who died above the five-year average, which excluded COVID in 2020 as a spiked death figure year. 

The excess deaths number for 2022 was 32,441 in England and Wales from May to December, the Express reported. Earlier in the year, the number for excess deaths had dipped much lower than the average level. 

Some Redditors refused to read an article just because it is Fox News:

"I'd love to know what was going on here but no way I'm clicking Fox News."

"Without reading the article I assume no mention has been made to the lack of funding, lack of staff, lack of training & effects caused by the strikes. As a complete simpleton it seems fairly obvious that more people are dying."

 Many blamed the Tories.

"The fact that the service is on its knees was I think made really first apparent (to anyone who wasn't looking closely beforehand anyway) was when we started to see those 4+ hour long queues of ambulances outside A&Es, which started appearing on the news in early 2022."

"I also don't need to read the article to know its mainly the Tories to blame. We need to call a general election tomorrow."

"Interestingly there has always been a statistic that you are more inclined to die at the weekend in hospital. People are waiting longer for appointments after being referred to the hospital, even afterwards where surgery is indicated (this includes cardiac operations) they’re waiting longer. Staffing issues exist, you’ll have people off with stress as well with a staffing population that may feel overworked and undervalued by the government, the management and the public. Same occurs in gp practices. Underfunded, and often blamed by the media and government for things that are really not their fault due to top down issues."

Also on Saturday, the name of a man arrested after a car crashed into the gates of Downing Street became known. It turned out that it was Seth Kneller, 43, from Crewe. He appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court today in relation to the indecent child images charge, Scotland Yard has said.

 ""has been charged with making indecent images of children"." - "Sadly an unclear charge these days. Could be a cartoonist."

 Also the British subreddit made a Megathread dedicated to news about Philip Schofield's issue. This TV presenter who stepped down from ITV after admitting lying about an affair with a colleague on This Morning.

There are different opinions on this case.

 

"I strongly suspect the age of consent line was crossed and Schofield's defense that he waited till he was old enough sounds like him trying to cover that up."

 

"The fact this topic needs a megathread is everything that's wrong with this country.

There were 136 stabbings yesterday. More than 4 million children didn't have enough to eat. And this is the shit you care about."

"Australian here, I don't know much about ITV and Phil Schofield, but I've seen tiktoks about his affair with the younger male for close to a year now. This is not news. It was all over tiktok all the time. Why is ITV acting like this is news to them? This is like claiming its news and a surprise that the queen is dead." - "Because he spun it when he initially got caught and played the victim. He was called brave because he was forced to come out and gave a sob story on his own show. The country seemingly accepted that and moved on. It's annoyed me ever since, and I'm so glad it's caught back up to the horrible cunt."

"He first met the kid when he was 10, arranged for the kid to get a job working under him and when the kid came of legal age he had an affair on his wife with him. Just all round gross."