DURING AUGUST, OUR community-led investigative platform, Noteworthy, was working away on several investigations including Selling Our Genes, Spruced Up and Academic Uncertainty.
CALL TO ACCOUNT: Are phone companies overcharging older people? We hope to examine court and ComReg records as well as protections in place. ‘I am struggling’: Part one highlights how home carers became the forgotten frontline workers of the pandemic with many taking a pay hit. It was worrying. Carers in the community were keeping clients out of hospital but we were forgotten about. Due to the volume of issues raised by carers about the home care sector when they answered our call-out, we decided to expand the investigation into a three-part series. Our general fund supported this additional work. This also has the option of a monthly subscription.
Over the past three months, we have put together a mini-series on how people with disabilities have been affected by both the pandemic & a lack of support stretching back far longer than the pandemic. We want to do an in-depth investigation into this, which you can support here. Finally, as schools welcome back pupils after such as long break, Covid-19 measures have been the main topic of discussion. However, other school-related issues haven’t gone away and we want to investigate a number of them.