Social care chiefs sound alarm at Labour’s ‘deafening silence’ on sector

Labour accused of dropping pledges after it abandons cap on costs and prepares to scrap care worker training fund

Unless Labour wakes up on social care, tragedies will happen

Labour has discarded its social care commitments and seems set to repeat the failure of previous governments to tackle the care crisis, the sector's leaders have warned.

Announcements by Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, that she would not cap costs for older people's care and Stephen Kinnock, the care minister, that he would scrap a fund giving training for 37,000 care workers, have alarmed the social care sector.