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Radio 4,15 Dec 2014,45 mins

Selling Care ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½s; Nuisance Calls; Free-from Foods

You and Yours

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A government task force set up to deal with the problem of nuisance calls says company bosses should be held accountable for the 'distress' caused. But will that tackle the unregistered companies who make many of the estimated one billion nuisance calls and texts made every year? You and Yours investigates. Some local authorities, charities and small businesses are selling care homes as budgets are squeezed. In Doncaster the longest running strike in social care ended only a few weeks ago. Workers had been protesting about wage cuts imposed in homes owned by a private equity group. Now the council is considering putting the running of seven homes that it owns out to tender. How are the families involved feeling? And more than half of those who buy 'free-from' food do not suffer from allergies or intolerances to gluten, dairy or nuts. What are the 'lifestyle reasons' for buying such products and is free-from really as healthy as all that?

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