
A pledge made in Downing Street four years ago today to fix the social care crisis has been left unfulfilled – with promises of support for the sector shelved, diluted or dropped, a coalition of charities has said.
The Care and Support Alliance (CSA), which represents more than 60 of England’s leading organisations campaigning for a properly funded care system, said people have been “on a wild goose chase” because vows of help for some of society’s most vulnerable were not followed through.