DESPITE promising to govern for all, the Government has betrayed older, vulnerable adults by failing to address the country’s social care and NHS crisis in Wednesday’s Autumn Statement.

It didn’t even warrant a mention. Successive governments over decades have put social care to the back of the queue… it has to stop.

By failing to act, the number of people going without care - currently one million - will rocket, as more care homes close and homecare providers go under. And as social care vanishes, NHS care will break under the strain.

Never has the call to tackle the social care crisis been so loud and united and never has the response been so empty.

How do we make the Government listen – stand as MPs ourselves to change it from within?

Neil Kinnock once said: “I warn you not to grow old.”

And in 1997 Tony Blair said he didn’t want children to grow up in a country where the only way pensioners could get care was by selling their homes.

How true and how shaming those words have now become. People deserve better.

Mike Padgham, Chair, Independent Care Group, Eastfield, Scarborough