Three million new reasons to act over social care crisis – The Yorkshire Post says

This is the extent to which Britain’s population is due to rise over the next decade from 66.4 million last year to 69.4 million residents by mid-2028 according to the Office for National Statistics.

Here are 1.4 million reasons why social care crisis must now be confronted by next PM - Mike Padgham

The Yorkshire Post makes no apology for, yet again, highlighting this issue – the challenge is persuading the Government to act when its reforms are years late and when Ministers seem so unmoved by the 1.4 million elderly and vulnerable people currently receiving insufficient and, in some cases, inadequate care.

Boris Johnson has kicked the can down the road on our social care crisis: Yorkshire Post Letters

For while Boris Johnson did, in fairness, mention the importance of the issue on the steps of 10 Downing Street when he vowed to prove the country’s ‘doubters, doomsters and gloomsters’ wrong, his priority, so far, has been an acceleration of the hospital rebuilding programme.

An open letter to Boris Johnson on social care and on behalf of all dementia victims – Mike Padgham

And while this is important and will be welcomed by patients in those cities, like Leeds, which will be amongst the beneficiaires, the fact of the matter is that it is the profound shortages in the provision of community care – as well as austerity cuts to council budgets that Ministers concede went too far – which is leaving NHS hospitals struggling to cope.

With the UK population due to rise by 4.5 per cent, the need for a clear, coherent and costed care plan has never been greater – the problem is that it will be as difficult as Brexit to find agreement. It is also a task that become harder with every further day of delay as Mr Johnson begins to scale back his Queen’s Speech ambitions less than 100 days after taking office.