‘Vulnerable care home residents will be denied dignity amid sector’s financial ruin’ runs the Telegraph headline, illustrated by a stock image of – yes you guessed it – a young disembodied hand holding an older disembodied hand. According to a leaked Care Quality Commission report various providers are on the brink of collapse ‘due to chronic staff shortages and underfunding by government.’

But then the article reveals itself to be about working-age people with learning disabilities or autistic people who will be ‘denied dignity and quality of life’ amid the sector’s ‘financial ruin’. It’s now unclear whether this leaked report pertains to residential care providers or other forms of care and support. The inclusion of a quote from the CEO of Dimensions would suggest the latter, but she invokes Southern Cross, the residential care home provider which collapsed leaving thousands of older people without support and DHSC tasked with…