Angie Mason (Producer/Director), gives behind-the-scenes insights into the making of our two-part BBC Panorama special ‘Crisis in Care’ about the deepening crisis in Adult Social Care – due to be televised on BBC One on Wednesday 29th May & Wednesday 5th June.
Crisis in Care follows the deepening crisis in Adult Social Care in one local authority over 10 months – Somerset County Council. Nearly half of Somerset’s annual budget is spent on Adult Social Care. Last summer it was on the brink of going bust – the financial pressures faced here are also being felt across the country. Rogan Productions together with BBC Social Affairs Correspondent, Alison Holt, were granted exclusive access to see first-hand the difficulties faced by Somerset’s Director of Adult Social Services, his team of social workers and local politicians.
The day after the Brexit referendum, I knew we needed to make a film about the Irish border. The decision to leave the European Union made the border overnight something of a catchphrase on the nightly news alongside words like hard, soft and backstop.
Knife crime was rarely out of the headlines in 2018. As incidents in England and Wales have risen to their highest level in eight years, victims, families, young people and politicians, have been calling for solutions to the problem.
