The Lockdown Files: Episode 3, The Case on Care Homes
Chopper's Politics
The Telegraph
4.2 • 864 Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Tens of thousands of care home residents died during the pandemic. Many people see it as the government’s biggest failure. Matt Hancock’s Whatsapp messages lifted the lid on conversations behind key decisions. But it wasn’t just the messages which were revealing… The team behind the Lockdown Files unearths new documents suggesting an unnerving offer made to care homes in Durham and Birmingham.
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| 0:00.0 | Unwelcome but expected, the coronavirus has hit the UK. |
| 0:04.4 | When coronavirus hit our shores, no one knew what to expect. |
| 0:09.2 | It's hoped containment measures will prevent the virus from getting established here. |
| 0:14.6 | By April 2020, the UK was under full lockdown. |
| 0:19.1 | You must stay at home. |
| 0:21.1 | Care Home started to shut their doors to visitors to protect their senior residents, |
| 0:25.6 | but it wasn't enough. |
| 0:27.2 | A third of all deaths linked to coronavirus in England and Wales are now happening in care homes according to the latest figures. |
| 0:34.8 | We're holding their hands because their family can't. |
| 0:37.2 | Our residents are still part of the population that shouldn't be forgot about. |
| 0:40.2 | Tens of thousands of people living in care homes died in the first wave of COVID-19, |
| 0:46.0 | despite the government saying, |
| 0:48.0 | Right from the start we've tried to throw a protective ring around our care homes. |
| 0:53.6 | So when we got Matt Hancock's What's that messages, |
| 0:57.0 | we had to get to the bottom of what happened in care homes. |
| 1:07.0 | Were the elderly really protected and we found something several things. I want justice and I want change. |
| 1:12.0 | Tens of thousands of grieving families, but they already feel like they're not being listened to. |
| 1:20.0 | But it wasn't just the messages which were revealing. |
| 1:23.1 | A source had come forward with another leak |
| 1:26.3 | about an offer made to care homes around County Durham |
| 1:29.3 | and possibly elsewhere in the country. |
| 1:32.3 | I don't think any of us knew what was happening and what the government was doing. |
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