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Labour can’t keep papering over the cracks in the care sector

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Yvette Cooper announced she was cancelling visas for social care earlier this month .

Number of health and care visas being issued each month has already plummeted by more than 80% .

But improving terms and conditions across this neglected sector remains an urgent national challenge.

Labour came into government with a plan to improve these low-paid and undervalued workers’ lives.

This may be a way of bridging the gap between the pressing need to raise the floor for these workers, and whatever long-term fix Casey comes up with.

But it is no substitute for funding the creaking social care system in a fairer and more sustainable way.

Ducking that urgent question, for Labour ’s entire first term, is every bit as politically squalid” as the Tories ’ decision to paper over the cracks with an influx of extremely hard-working staff from overseas.

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