Verse to stop social care from getting any worse Managing Director Mike Padgham has commissioned a poem to send to Boris Johnson over social care. Campaigning on behalf of all care providers, Mr Padgham is urging the Prime ‘Minister to bring forward reform of the care sector. Mr Padgham said: “Mr Johnson said he would tackle social Mike Padgham is pictured above during a visit to CU care when he took over as Prime Minister Scarborough where he was invited to talk to local businesses about the state of social care in 2020 and again at the General Election. “We are yet to see much action on that front and I would like to meet him – either here in North Yorkshire or at 10 Downing Street to discuss the crisis in the sector. “If he comes to Scarborough he will see for himself the challenges facing the delivery of social care in 2020.” He added the poem as “something different” to strengthen the plea. Campaigners are worried after Mr Johnson said plans to tackle social care would be brought forward this year but admitted it could take up to 2025 to have them implemented. Mr Padgham added: “We seriously cannot wait that long and social care needs support right now, not in two, three or five years’ time.”
A poem to Boris Johnson: Care Needed Please I want to get out, but I don’t know where to go. My legs don’t seem to work and I’ve lost the feeling in my toes. I think I’ve wet myself, but I really can’t be sure, and I can’t get up to see who’s knocking at the door. And I’d love a cup of tea; perhaps a piece of cake — but I daren’t boil the kettle
and there’s no one here to make. Where’s my family gone when I need them most? I can’t reach the phone to call them and there are flies on my toast. I didn’t ask to be like this: I used to be carefree. I don’t want to be a burden; I just need you to care for me.