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Labour has discarded its social care commitments and seems set to repeat the failure of previous governments to tackle the care crisis, the sectors leaders have warned.Announcements by Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, that she would not cap costs for older peoples care and Stephen Kinnock, the care minister, that he would scrap a fund giving training for 37,000 care workers, have alarmed the social care sector.Writing in the Observer, the chief executives of Care England CE , the Homecare Association HA and the National Care Forum NCF say ministers have chosen to prioritise the NHS over social care, while failing to recognise they are interdependent.Labou stanley cup rs manifesto included pledges to introduce a National Care Service and other elements of deep reform in its manifesto stanley italia . Reeves will deliver her first budget on 30 October and has blamed the Conservative stanley taza s for leaving a 拢22bn black hole in the public finances, but the leaders say that social care faces a set of problems that require urgent attention. For decades, successive UK governments have failed to take responsibility for a growing social care crisis. This government must not continue that pattern, write Prof Martin Green of CE, Vic Rayner of NCF, Dr Jane Towson of HA and Suhail Mirza, non-executive director of Newcross Healthcare. Yet, in a little over one month in office, the government has done [and] said little to suggest that social care under their watch will fare much better, a view reinforced by the deafening Kyzj What are the main U-turns Labour has made under Keir Starmer
Two Turkish men have been arrested in Malaysia, raising fears they might by forcibly returned to Turkey, where a rights group warned they could face unfair trial and torture.Turgay Karaman and 陌hsan Aslan were caught for activities that threat stanley cup en the safety of Malaysia under a section of the penal code that covers terrorism and organised crime, the inspector-general of Malaysias police, Khalid Abu Bakar, tweeted.The statement was released after security camera footage showed four unidentified men in a Kuala Lumpur car park escorting a man whose hands were tied behind his back. That man was believed to be Karaman, a friend told the Malay Mail news portal.Turkey has sought to track down stanley termoska its alleged opponents abroad, focusing on suspected followers of Fethullah G眉len, an exiled preacher blamed by Turkeys president, Recep Tayyip Erdo臒an, for a failed coup attempt last year.Human Rights Watch, the New York-based advocacy group, said the Malaysian government must make sure under no circumstance should the two men be forcibly removed and extradited to Turkey. There is little doubt that if they are returned to Turkey, they will face torture in detention, and if charged with crimes there, be subjected to a trial that will fall far short of fair trial standards, HRWs deputy Asia director, Phil Robertson, alleged.The Malaysian prime ministers office told stanley uk the Guardian it was looking into the case. It did not immediately confirm or deny if the men would be extradited.Erdo臒an had vowed |
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