The Conservatives at Westminster and Conservative councillors here in Nottinghamshire have short-changed our local care services and let down local people.
Funding cuts have caused savage reductions in support services and huge increases in cost to the most vulnerable residents: children, those with disabilities and the very elderly.
Liberal Democrats will continue to press for more money for health and social care services. We will not support any County Council budget that does not make care services a priority.
During the pandemic, the staff of Nottinghamshire’s health and social care services have gone above and beyond their call of duty, with little recognition from the County Council’s leadership.
Nottinghamshire must invest in its social care workforce. We will look out for those who look out for us.
A Liberal Democrat-led council will save children’s centres and Sure Start services. Liberal Democrats will ban the use of unregulated providers of residential care for children and young people.
The effects of COVID-19 will be with us for some time. Long Covid, mental health issues and financial difficulties have all been caused by the pandemic. A caring Nottinghamshire must provide the services that people need as a result.