What if we stopped treating social care like a service? A small village community in Yorkshire showed me another way

Members of the Esk Valley Community baking bread. Esk Valley Community Within an hour of arriving in Botton, a small, picturesque village in the UK’s North Yorkshire moors, I was standing in a farm field shovelling hay. Alongside me were my friend Max*, his father, a co-worker named Richard, two volunteers and several

Unison’s analysis of the latest industry employment figures has found the number of new international recruits hired into care jobs plunged from 105,000 in 2023-24 to 30,000 in 2025-26.

AI doesn't need human motives to produce autonomous harm. If people use such breaches for personal gain, the motive is human, even if AI systems facilitate the action.

What is behind this behaviour, why are gardaí so limited in how they can respond, and what would it take to stop it?