SOCIAL care leaders have called for a “step change” in the way the sector is understood and talked about by politicians.

In an open letter to party leaders co-ordinated by the Local Government Association, they say that workers have been struck by social care not being “as prominent as it should be in debates about the future of our communities.”

When it does feature, “it tends to be presented as a service that is broken and in need of being fixed or defined in narrow terms around questions about ‘who pays for social care?’”