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• Unless Labour wakes up on social care, tragedies will happen | Martin Green, Vic Rayner, Jane Townson and Suhail Mirza

  31-08-2024 19:04
  
  The new government is showing every sign that it intends to ignore the crisis in social care. It has to change course• Social care chiefs sound alarm at Labour’s ‘deafening silence’ on sectorSummertime, 160 years ago. Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to then secretary of war Edwin Stanton, wrote: “You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” Those words could be applied to a plethora of current, global challenges – climate change, in
  
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• Social care chiefs sound alarm at Labour’s ‘deafening silence’ on sector

  31-08-2024 19:03
  
  Labour accused of dropping pledges after it abandons cap on costs and prepares to scrap care worker training fund• Unless Labour wakes up on social care, tragedies will happenLabour has discarded its social care commitments and seems set to repeat the failure of previous governments to tackle the care crisis, the sector’s leaders have warned.Announcements by Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, that she would not cap costs for older people’s care and Stephen Kinnock, the care minister
  
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