THE failure to tackle Britain’s social care crisis looks set to continue under Labour as ministers have demonstrated a “deafening silence” over its issues, sector leaders warned today.

Chief executives of Care England (CE), the Homecare Association (HA) and the National Care Forum (NCF) sounded the alarm after Chancellor Rachel Reeves said she would not cap costs for older people’s care and care minister Stephen Kinnock said he would scrap a fund giving training for 37,000 care workers.

Labour vowed to introduce a National Care Service and other elements of “deep reform” to the chronically understaffed sector in its manifesto.