12 days ago · Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom
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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SignalsMonitor is following this as a politics story. The Guardian UK is the outlet attached so far. The reports are tied to Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom. The first report grouped here was at 5 Oct 2026, 05:00 UTC. The headline in use is “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”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
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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 people Seemingly brilliant conference speeches are often followed by a hangover, and so it has arguably proved with Andy Burnham’s. It was, it has…
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