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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
James Tapper

Social care chiefs sound alarm at Labour’s ‘deafening silence’ on sector

Mary Griffin, 93, spins a plate, helped by circus performer Jasmin Edwards, as she leads a workshop at  Castle Dene residential and dementia care in Bournemouth.
Mary Griffin, 93, spins a plate, helped by circus performer Jasmin Edwards, at Castle Dene residential and dementia care in Bournemouth. Photograph: Ben Birchall/PA

Labour 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, that he would scrap a fund giving training for 37,000 care workers, have alarmed the social care sector.

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