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Social Care Funding

Proceeding contribution from Baroness Keeley (Labour) in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 17 October 2018. It occurred during Opposition day on Social Care Funding.

I very much agree. In recent months, I have met carers of people with MND and one becomes aware of how much time presses on them.

Our motion deals with social care funding, but this debate is really about people, such as the people my hon. Friend just referred to. It is about how society treats older and younger adults, how we should enable them to live independently and with dignity, and how this Government are badly letting them down. I will look today at the damage caused by Government inaction—damage to vulnerable people who rely on social care to live with dignity, damage to the lives of unpaid family carers who have had to step in to care for their friends and relatives, and damage to 1.4 million hard-working care staff, many of whom are so badly paid and so overworked that they cannot deliver the care that people need.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
647 c726 
Session
2017-19
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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