Stephen Kinnock has been appointed as the minister with responsibility for adult social care in the new government. The Labour MP for Aberafan Maesteg in Wales becomes minister of state for care in the Department of Health and Social Care.
His appointment comes despite him never having held the portfolio as a shadow minister, however, he does have experience of the impact of dementia on families, having lost his mother, MEP Glennys Kinnock, to Alzheimer’s Disease in 2023.
Mr Kinnock and his boss, health and social care secretary Wes Streeting, will need to determine how they plan to tackle the growing care crisis after the planned reforms were cancelled by Chancellor Rachel Reeves.
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