A Labour government will take failing care homes into public ownership to protect social care provision, Jeremy Corbyn is to promise.
The Labour leader will warn the social care system is at “serious risk of breakdown” unless the Government invests more money.
In a speech to the Fabian Society new year conference, he will say rising costs and falling fee payments from councils had seen 380 care home businesses declared insolvent since 2010.
He will also point to figures from the Care Quality Commission which found last year that one in five nursing homes did not have sufficient staff on duty to ensure residents received good, safe care.
“Labour will not let the elderly down, people who’ve worked all their lives, paid their taxe…
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