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🗓️ 20 March 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
0:11.9 | We're on the roof of a Tesco Extra store in Lincoln. |
0:14.6 | We've got Lincoln Cathedral and then a sea of solar panels everywhere you look. |
0:19.3 | What are these doing? |
0:20.8 | So the solar panels are actually powering 20% |
0:23.6 | off the store that we're standing on top of. |
0:26.3 | Tesco aims to be net zero |
0:27.9 | across its own operations by 2035. |
0:30.9 | To find out how it plans to get there, |
0:32.9 | visit TheGuardian.com forward slash Tesco sustainability. |
0:36.6 | This message was paid for by Tesco. |
0:42.7 | England's adult social care system is on the brink. An aging population, a massive funding |
0:51.8 | squeeze and a recruitment crisis have all left this essential |
0:55.2 | service at breaking point. |
0:58.6 | Social care sector will break and will maybe sustain for a matter of months before people |
1:04.3 | close down and there will be no social care. |
1:06.8 | This week we're on the road in Greater Manchester to get an idea of what a day in the life of a care worker looks like and look at the fragile state of adult social care. |
1:16.6 | People do not want to go to work for £12 an hour and do the job that we're doing when you can go to Tesco and get exactly the same. |
1:24.3 | For years and years, governments have postponed and ignored the need for serious reform. |
1:29.7 | And given that Labor now seems focused on the benefit system and an NHS shake-up, |
1:34.4 | a sustainable future for social care looks more distant than ever. |
1:38.5 | Ahead of Rachel Reeve's spring financial statement next week, |
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