SOCIAL care providers have backed a major political party’s conference stance on social care.
The Independent Care Group welcomed the promise by the Liberal Democrats not to let social care get forgotten.
ICG chair Mike Padgham said: “It is vital that we avoid what happened under the last Conservative government, when the care of older, vulnerable and disabled adults was forgotten as politicians concentrate on more headline-grabbing issues.
“We welcome the pledge by the Liberal Democrat leader that he will join us in holding the Government to account on social care.
“If the Government is serious about saving and reforming the NHS, as we trust they are, they cannot do so without saving and reforming social care.”
The words come after Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey told his party conference that “care and carers must not be forgotten and ignored any longer”.
He attacked both the Conservatives and the new Labour administration for failing to make social care a priority at the General Election. And he urged the Government not to make the same mistakes the Conservatives had and to act faster and be bolder, especially to avoid future winter crises.