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Leicestershire MPs call for end of Johnson’s Government following Downing Street party scandal

13/12/2021

I, like many others, was outraged to learn of the party held in Downing Street at the height of lockdown. Leicester was locked down for over a year. People made huge sacrifices to follow the rules, unable to say goodbye to their loved ones and spending Christmas apart from family […]

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Boris Johnson warned 22,000 people will run out of cash before care cap comes in

12/12/2021

Analysis by the Labour Party has revealed that by the time Boris Johnson’s cap on care costs comes in, 22,000 people will have run out of money. The Prime Minister promised over 800 days ago to ‘fix the crisis in social care once and for all’, but his White Paper […]

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Care home in Kent gives families 10 hours’ notice of closure

06/12/2021

Residents at Berkley House in Kent were told one morning that they had to be out by 5pm the same day. They had to close due to staffing shortages, leaving their residents with autism and severe learning difficulties with nowhere to go. This awful case is just the tip of […]

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Liz responds to the Government’s social care white paper

02/12/2021

Yesterday, the Government published their long-awaited social care white paper, outlining their plans to reform the social care system. What we needed was a long-term vision that finally put social care where it belonged; on an equal footing with the NHS, at the heart of a modernised welfare state. But […]

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Boris Johnson is not showing enough ambition to fix the social care crisis

30/11/2021

Boris Johnson has repeatedly promised – including in the 2019 Conservative manifesto – that no one will have to sell their home to pay for their care. But the very same Tory MPs who were elected on this promise voted through a policy so indefensibly unfair that Andrew Dilnot, the original […]

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Liz congratulates Carers Centre on 30 years

29/11/2021

Today is the 30th Anniversary of The Carers Centre – Leicestershire and Rutland. For thirty years they’ve supported unpaid family carers in looking after their loved ones, offering them advice and company through what can be an incredibly difficult time. I’ve written to Kirsteen McVeigh, CEO of The Carers Centre, […]

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Liz sets out Labour’s tests for the Government’s Social Care Plans

25/11/2021

Today, I spoke to the National Children and Adult Services Conference alongside our Shadow Secretary of State for Education, Kate Green MP. This event brings together Directors of Children’s and Adult Social Services from councils across England, to discuss common issues and hear from experts in this area. Ahead of […]

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Statement from Liz Kendall MP

24/11/2021

My partner and I are delighted to announce that we will be having a baby in the new year through surrogacy. It has been a really difficult time getting here, so we feel unbelievably lucky and happier than we ever imagined. We will be eternally grateful to our surrogate for […]

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Liz speaks to BBC Radio Leicester about the cap on care costs

22/11/2021

I spoke to BBC Radio Leicester about the real concerns that Labour have with the Government’s proposals on care costs. At a time when we have terrible frontline staff shortages, that family carers are being pushed to breaking point, and that disabled people can’t get the help they need to […]

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Liz challenges Government’s social care plans on GB News

22/11/2021

Earlier today I spoke with Gloria de Piero on GB News about the Government’s proposed changes to the cap on care costs. Right now, ordinary people are seeing a rise in their taxes, without seeing anything back for it. They are not seeing a single extra minute of care for […]

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Tory ‘stealth’ social care change set to hammer north but barely affect south

22/11/2021

New analysis by Labour shows that two thirds of poorer home owners will have to pay more towards their care under Boris Johnson’s new proposals. The Tories are imposing a punishing tax hike on ordinary working people that does nothing to ensure more people get the care they need or […]

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Britain’s elderly deserve so much more than Boris Johnson’s broken promises

22/11/2021

Boris Johnson’s tax hike on working people won’t “fix the crisis in social care” or stop elderly people with low or modest savings from having to sell their homes to pay for care. But it will protect the homes of the wealthiest. I’ve written for the Mirror about why Labour […]