Lords social care report - Barbara Keeley responds for Labour

Barbara Keeley MP, Shadow Cabinet Minister for Social Care and Mental Health, commenting on the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee report on adult social care, said:

“This report is yet another sign that social care services are at breaking point.”

“The Government’s relentless and savage cuts to council budgets have caused a crisis with £7.7 billion taken out of social care funding since 2010, cuts that even Jeremy Hunt now accepts were wrong and went too far. Boris Johnson must now do so too.”

“Social Care has been neglected by this Government for too long. Both leadership contenders must match Labour’s commitment to invest an extra £8 billion in social care across a Parliament. That’s how we’ll build a sound funding solution for the longer term.”