Burnham’s plans for social care and its workers are admirable but changes must come quickly | Heather Stewart
Burnham’s plans for social care and its workers are admirable but changes must come quickly | Heather Stewart. Money is needed now for a system that has left families including mine struggling their way unsupported and forgotten As one of many hundreds of thousands of people in the UK with a parent with Alzheimer’s, the passage in Andy Burnham’s speech about social care moved me to tears. My mother had not even been diagnosed when I watched Theresa May announce her 2017 general election manifesto in a hall in Halifax – with care funding at its heart. Continue reading...
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