Yvette Cooper: “The reality is that extreme demand is no longer confined to winter”

We will deliver the first-ever legally-binding fair pay agreement for care workers with minimum standards of pay and conditions across every employer.

I’m sorry for the unthinkable pain caused by those historic practices, because what happened to those parents should never have happened and we need to ensure it can never happen again.

I want to make it a personal crusade to put the cradle back at the heart of the NHS.

We cannot have employers getting round the rules or finding different ways to deviate.