Social care for disabled adults is in as much crisis as support for elderly people – so why is the government silent about it? | John Harris

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S eemingly brilliant conference speeches are often followed by a hangover, and so it has arguably proved with Andy Burnham’s. It was, it has to be said, something of a triumph, but there is now a familiar sense of [nagging angst](https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/national-care-service-plan-care-costs-andy-burnham-cmh3wpt9f) over how his big idea of a national care service is actually go…