Independent Care Group Chair Mike Padgham has issued a final rallying call to everyone to get behind next week’s day of action.
Mr Padgham says Tuesday’s march offers a vital opportunity to send a strong message to the Government that social care needs urgent help.“We have suffered for more than 30 years and Tuesday offers us the opportunity to say enough is enough, people who rely on social care and those who deliver it deserve much, much better,” said Mr Padgham, Chair of the social care provider organisation, The Independent Care Group (ICG).“I hope that in whatever way they can, people get behind the day of action and send a very clear signal that things need to change and the Government needs to urgently bring forward social care reform.”The day of action has been called to urge the Government to review the impact the proposed increase in Employer’s National Insurance Contributions and rise in the National Living Wage will have on social care. It is being organised by Providers Unite, a coalition of social care representatives. They expect between two thousand and three thousand people to attend. This will include a range of providers and staff from across Yorkshire.Mr Padgham, who is Executive Chairman of Saint Cecilia’s Care Group and Director Aaron Padgham will be representing the social care company and the ICG at the march in London.
Some staff from Saint Cecilia’s Care Group will gather at Saint Cecilia’s Nursing Home in Scarborough at 11am on Tuesday to stage their own demonstration in support of the day.
Mike Padgham said: “With all the cost increases coming, care providers are facing a struggle to survive this spring.
“Without some Government help we may well lose more providers and the number of people going without care will grow from the 2m it already is.”
Campaigners want the Government to review the budget measures, make social care providers exempt from the rise in National Insurance or to put more funding into the sector to help them cope with rising costs.
The day of action takes place on Tuesday, 25th February. More details: https://www.providersunite.co.uk/