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Cabinet Office sets out plan for bringing services like cleaning and security back in-house
ALMOST 150,000 self-funding care home residents are propping up a “broken” social care system that generates “bloated profits for shadowy private companies,” the GMB union warned today.
The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics reveal that 143,774 care home residents — about 36 per cent of the total — paid for their services themselves in 2019-20, rather than benefiting from state help through local councils.
But years of inadequate local authority funding of the sector has driven many families who pay for a loved one’s care into financial hardship, the union pointed out.
If we can tackle the big issues, like delivering decent public services and affordable state-built and owned housing by making the richest pay a fair amount of tax, Labour can win back the trust and support of the electorate, argues ANDY McDONALD MP
Our housing crisis isn’t an accident – it’s class war, trapping millions in poverty while landlords and billionaires profit. To solve it, we need comprehensive transformation, not mere tokenistic reform, writes BECK ROBERTSON
