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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Robert Booth Social affairs correspondent

Tory turmoil hits efforts to fix staffing crisis in adult social care

Social care workers provide the practical support to help people cope with the day-to-day business of living.
Social care workers provide the practical support to help people cope with the day-to-day business of living. Photograph: Simon Rawles/Alamy

The government has delayed several key reforms to social care staffing in England due to political chaos caused by the collapse of the Boris Johnson and Liz Truss governments and a Whitehall recruitment freeze, it has emerged.

Work to create new training places and develop the low-paid care workforce was supposed to start in September but has been delayed by at least six months.

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