'We feel manipulated and scared': care work during the coronavirus crisis

People doing the job we do for the money we are paid should never have been put in this situationThe last time I’d called the Samaritans, I was a teenager. I’d had a row with my mum and felt like jumping in the canal. I called again this spring, 27 years later. It was 2am and I hadn’t slept properly for weeks.I’d been kept awake sobbing and worrying about residents at the care home where I work. I was due on shift at 7am and was anxious I wouldn’t make it. Continue