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Social care for disabled adults is in as much crisis as support for elderly people – so why is the government silent about it? | John Harris

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Social care for disabled adults is in as much crisis as support for elderly people – so why is the government silent about it? | John Harris
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Working-age adults such as my son, who is autistic, face a fragmented and unreliable system, yet ministers talk only of a national care service for older peopleSeemingly brilliant conference speeches are often followed by a hangover, and so it has arguably proved with Andy Burnham’s. It was, it has to be said, something of a triumph, but there is now a familiar sense of nagging angst over how his big idea of a national care service is actually going to work. But equally, it doesn’t seem unreason

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