In its Module 6 report published on 20 October 2026, the UK Covid-19 Inquiry found that the Adult Social Care Support Sector had long considered itself “overlooked and undervalued by successive governments” and “[t]he response of the four governments to the Covid-19 pandemic did little, if anything, to dispel that belief.” |
| The fragmented and fragile state of the Social Care Support Sector contributed to the tragic impact on both care recipients and carers of the Covid-19 Pandemic described within the report. To ensure the experiences of the pandemic are not repeated, the Inquiry called for the Social Care Support Sector to be “viewed as part of the UK’s critical infrastructure, essential to ensuring that… health and social care needs” are met. Bhatt Murphy represents four national Disabled People’s Organisations who were Core Participants in Module 6: Disability Rights UK, Disability Action Northern Ireland, Disability Wales and Inclusion Scotland. They support that call and encourage national and local governments to work with service users in implementing the Inquiry’s recommendations and delivering necessary reform.
The Disabled People’s Organisations are represented by a team at Bhatt Murphy led by Shamik Dutta and Caleb Simpson, instructing Danny Friedman KC, Kate Beattie, Alice Irving and Robbie Stern. Read the DPO press release here. Read the Inquiry’s Module 6 report here.
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