WHEN Theresa May took up the post of Prime Minister, she promised to fight injustice and create a Britain that works for everyone.

At the Conservative party conference, she promised to take and not shirk the big decisions.

Well, just months into her time as Prime Minister, it would appear the Government is failing our oldest and most vulnerable people on all of those pledges.

A lack of investment in social care has meant the sector is now in crisis.

Age UK fears social care could begin to collapse this year and says 1.2 million people over 65 – about one in eight – now live with an unmet care need, 48 per cent more than in 2010.

Some £160 million has been cut from older people’s social care since that year.

As a care provider myself, I am dismayed to see care homes in my local area and all over the country closing and homecare providers handing back contracts that they cannot deliver.

It is getting harder and harder to recruit nursing and care staff or to pay them what they deserve for the job they do.

Ahead of the Budget, I invite the Prime Minister to come and see life on the front line of social care delivery and see what it means to try to deliver care to older, frail and vulnerable people in 2017. Then see if she feels the Government is fighting injustice, creating a Britain that works for everyone and facing up to the big decisions.

Mike Padgham, Managing director, St Cecilia’s Care Services, Scarborough