Barbara Keeley MP, Labour’s Shadow Minister for Mental Health and Social Care, commenting on the CQC state of Care report, said:

“This report paints a picture of over-stretched mental health and social care services and deteriorating quality of care. Patients are paying the price for the government’s inaction and empty promises.

“The scale of the failure to provide safe, high quality child and adolescent mental health services or to provide community placements near to home for people with learning disabilities and autistic people is wholly unacceptable.

“Yesterday Parliament was subjected to a Queen’s Speech that ignored the workforce crisis in the NHS, promised no action to improve the state of outdated mental health hospitals and neglected the crisis in social care. The Tories need to apologise for the dire state of both mental health and social care – it’s clear you can’t trust them to deliver these vital services.”

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