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Prime Minister Andy Burnham accuses previous governments of putting "point scoring" before fixing the issues in social care, as he sets out plans to improve the sector in a key speech on Wednesday. Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00It's a major dereliction of public duty that Parliament has not faced up to this, of all challenges, something so
00:10fundamental to life as this.
00:14It's shameful, to be honest, that politicians have put point scoring before fixing this issue.
00:22But that's what's happened. It's created a feeling in Westminster that this is too difficult.
00:28And if you take it on, you're taking on too big a political risk.
00:32How can we have got to a position where it's too difficult to fix the basic care that we give
00:38to each other, that fellow human beings receive?
00:42I mean, how has Parliament got itself to that position?
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