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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Rebecca Whittaker and Rebecca Thomas

UK’s care sector blasted as ‘utter s****’ by inquiry chief

People in need of adult social care are sometimes being charged for “utter shite”, the government’s social care tsar said as she called for a “reckoning” over the sector.

Baroness Louise Casey, who is leading an independent commission on adult social care, described social care as a “creaking, inconsistent and impenetrable” system held together with “sticking plasters and glue”.

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