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Burnham’s plans for social care and its workers are admirable but changes must come quickly | Heather Stewart

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Money is needed now for a system that has left families including mine struggling their way unsupported and forgotten As one of many hundreds of thousands of people in the UK with a parent with Alzheimer’s, the passage in Andy Burnham’s speech about…

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  • Reported by The Guardian and published Sun, 04 Oct 2026 10:37:59 UTC.

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