sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre. british boxer amir khan has been banned from all sport for two years, after it emerged he tested positive for a prohibitive substance following his fight against kell brook in february last year. uk anti doping says the former light welterweight world champion tested positive for the anabolic agent ostarine. khan retired from boxing in may and accepts he broke anti doping rules but says it wasn t intentional. an independent tribunal has accepted that argument, ruling out deliberate or reckless conduct by the 36 year old. more boxing news to bring you oleksandr usyk has been ordered to defend his unified heavyweight titles against british fighter daniel dubois. it follows the collapse of usyk s proposed fight with tyson fury. the pair were set to meet later this month but couldn t agree terms, so usyk s attention will now turn to dubois who ll face his first world heavyweight title challenge. chelsea play liverpool
sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here s chetan. we start with the english premier league. four matches to come later. chelsea s first game after sacking manager graham potter is against liverpool. both sides have struggled this season and are desperate for a win. interim chelsea boss bruno saltor says it ll be the first time he s picking a team but he s hopeful the players will respond. seeing it as an opportunity for the players. we are representing chelsea, a club with an amazing history and it s about winning and dominating and what we need to do and preparation helps a lot to the performance and that is what the players need to focus on. luke shaw has signed a new four year contract with manchester united that will keep him at the club until 2027. the 27 year old moved to old trafford from southampton in 2014 and has played 249 times for the club, winning both the league cup and europa league. he s made 36 appearances this season under erik ten
has been held back. ministers unveiled £2 billion of grants for the next two years, but a total of £600 million has been held back by the department of health and social care. some 250 million of it came from the £500 million originally promised last year to support the workforce through measures such as extra training places. social care minister helen whately said the revised plan focuses on recognising care with the status it deserves . currently about one in 10 posts are vacant with staffing shortages, and there are currently more than 500,000 people waiting for care. jackie o sullivan is co chair of the care and support alliance which represents more than 70 charities. she s also director of communication, advocacy and activism at the charity mencap, which works with people with learning disabilities. we are grateful for your time on the programme. your immediate reaction to this funding being halved? iquite
and there are currently more than 500,000 people waiting for care. quite frankly, it feels really insulting. if you think borisjohnson when he was prime minister stood on the steps of downing street and said he was going to fix social care and then in 2021 we have a white paper which set out a really positive vision for what social care could look like in the future and since then we ve been dealing with covid oand the aftermath and the cost of living crisis and extreme workforce pressures and nothing else has, come through and care which feels like a slap in the face, because if you think we have 165,000 vacancies, 10% of the workforce and the costs of that are the impact on quality for the people who get care and the impact on people who cannot get care and again, as you ve identified, there s a lot of people in that situation and the stress that places on their families who are struggling to cope and battle with the system and the stress it puts on the other care