Liz Kendall

The new Health Secretary said he would lay out the ‘general direction’ for social care reform this year. The Government have had over a decade to set out the ‘general direction’ of their social care reforms, yet have repeatedly failed to do so. Social care staff, users and their families […]

Matt Hancock’s claims that there was no list of care homes at the start of the pandemic is at best disingenuous. Family members will be incredibly frustrated to hear yet another excuse from the Secretary of State, and instead of trying to defend his record, he needs to take responsibility […]

After a decade of Tory cuts, the shocking fact is that our care workers can’t deliver services to all those who need it. This provides neither the dignity nor security that Boris Johnson promised for older and disabled people.  Almost two years after he promised to fix this crisis, too […]

This dithering and delay from the Prime Minister on important talks on social care reform is entirely unsurprising. We have been waiting almost two years to see the ‘clear plan’ for social care that he claimed to have prepared, and all we’ve heard about it is nine words in the […]

Matt Hancock was at best disingenuous in his evidence to the select committee today. He selectively used briefings, evidence and clinical advice to defend his record instead of admitting his abject failure to protect care homes in the pandemic. Even Matt Hancock knows he now categorically failed to put a […]

The Daily Mail have launched a campaign highlighting the problem of private equity firms buying up care homes. When Southern Cross collapsed in 2011 there were thousands of residents living in their care homes facing distress and anxiety. They were left in the dark about whether they would be able to […]