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“It breaks your heart everyday”: navigating England’s social care system
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Andy Burnham has pledged to fix England’s broken social care system. Heather Stewart explains why it matters so much to families like hers. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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Today, the very personal cost of England's broken social care system.
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This is The Guardian. Today, the very personal cost of England's broken social care system. My mum shared strong personality, clever, funny, quite sharp tongue at times. and we spent a lot of time together.
My brother's nearly six years younger than me, so I was an only child until I was at school, so mum was very much the closest person in my life. This is Guardian journalist Heather Stewart
talking about her mum, Liz. She left school at 16 and was a treasury civil servant and was kind of climbing the ladder there, then left to have me,
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