Crisis in Care: Who Cares? review – the horrors of austerity laid bare

This devastating expose met the people in need whose lives are being ruined by government cuts. Anything slashed by two-thirds is no longer fit for purpose

'Hope I die before I get old," sang the Who in 1965. What was written in the spirit of nihilistic affectation now sounds, for their generation and the aged cohorts behind them, like a heartfelt prayer.

Panorama's Crisis in Care: Who Cares? (BBC One) is the result of the BBC social affairs correspondent Alison Holt's 10-month investigation into the travails of four families in Somerset living with someone with complex care needs and the problems of the local council in fulfilling its duty to meet them.

Any questioning of (let alone response from) the government was conspicuous by its absence