Don’t they care?

IF ONLY our politicians could show the same passion for our oldest and most vulnerable adults as they have done during the debates over Brexit, social care wouldn’t be in crisis.

I wrote to all 650 MPs calling on them to tackle a situation that has resulted in 1.4 million people going without the care they need. That I received fewer than ten replies speaks volumes about their priorities.

Brexit has become such an allencompassing distraction that nothing else is being addressed.

We are still waiting for the longpromised Green Paper on social care, but even when it is published, it will doubtless be only a starting point for debate and discussion.

As a care provider looking after people today, I am asking for government action on social care now, not next month or next year.

MIKE PADGHAM, St Cecilia’s Care Group, Scarborough, N. Yorks.