LAUSR

Long-term care (LTC) provision is diverse across Europe and more economically developed countries with input from different actors and agencies ranging from informal family carers, the state, and, increasingly, migrant workers. The Covid-19 pandemic has thrown an intense light on the LTC sector for all the wrong reasons: from high infection levels and death rates in care settings, mainly residential care (OECD, 2020), to evidence of failure to protect the LTC workforce with fragmented and contradictory guidelines and delays in or inadequate supplies of personal protection equipment and training (Reed etal., forthcoming). [...]Roland and colleagues highlight that the role of, and reliance on, informal care, whether implicit or explicit in national LTC policies continues to be essential. [...]Hussein examines racial inequalities in the UK’s health and social care work outcomes, including recruitment, work experience, and rewards.