A total of 55 MPs have joined the all-party parliamentary group on social services and elected Joan Humble, Labour MP for Blackpool North and Fleetwood, as chairperson.
Over the next year, the group will examine recruitment of social care staff; the first two months of the General Social Care Council and National Care Standards Commission; the interface between social care and preventive work with older people.
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