Barbara Keeley MP, Labour’s Shadow Cabinet Minister for Social Care, commenting on Panorama’s upcoming report on care contract closures, said:

“This is yet more evidence of this Government’s social care crisis.

"With £4.6billion cuts to social care in the last Parliament and rising pressures from demand, costs and wages, it is no surprise that an increasing number of care providers are finding it impossible to make their contracts work.

"The funding in the Budget for social care was only half what was needed for this year. It’s time the Government gave social care the money it needs and develops a fair, long-term funding solution to provide sufficient good quality and dignified care for those who need it.”