Findings shared at national event on interconnected crises in care

Annual ‘festival of ideas’ hosted by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation features FICCH researcher alongside campaigners for workers’ rights in the sector

Project member Dr Amy Horton (UCL) was invited to the Big Tent Ideas Festival – an event held by the JRF in York with the aim of ‘regenerating collective imagination’ – to discuss the relationship between problems with care availability and affordability, and the undervaluing of care workers.

The panel discussion featured representatives from the Care Workers Charity and the Nanny Solidarity Network, and was facilitated by Sophie McBain, associate editor of the New Statesman magazine. Drawing on FICCH research, Dr Horton outlined the ways in which privatisation, austerity and financialisation combine to extract resources from the care sector, and argued for a more progressive funding model that would reverse the devaluation of care itself, as well as its workers and users.

You can read more about the event here.