Liz Kendall MP, Labour’s Shadow Minister for Care and Older People, responding to the Public Accounts Committee’s report Adult Social Care in England, said:

“This very senior group of MPs is absolutely right to warn of the crisis facing social care.

“The Committee is right to draw attention to the low pay that care workers are receiving, with hundreds of thousands paid less than the minimum wage.

“We’ll never get the quality of care we all want to see for our loved ones so long as this goes on. The report says that Ministers just don’t understand the scale of the challenge.

“This is a wake-up call for them to stop burying their heads in the sand.”