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The government has dropped a pledge to invest in new social work training routes as part of a halving of committed spending on developing the adult social care workforce.
In a 2021 white paper on adult social care reform, ministers pledged to invest at least £500million in England over three years to transform the way we support the social care workforce .
Halving social care workforce funding in England has been branded a betrayal by charities, unions and other political parties which also accused the Government of broken promises.
The government has been accused of "kick the can down the road again" after it confirmed that funding promised to improve the adult social care workforce