Some have been quite emotional when outlining their concerns.

He has 210 staff, and his current wage bill is £5.3m a year. He estimates each month the increase in employers' National Insurance will cost an extra £5,000, and the increase in the minimum wage will add another £25,000.Most of his residents are funded by the local authority and Mr Padgham says he will have to ask for higher fees.

But care providers have long complained financially squeezed councils do not pay enough to cover the real costs of care.Mr Padgham, who chairs the Independent Care Group, which represents independent providers, said that as a labour-intensive sector an increase in employee costs was "the last thing social care needed"."For a lot of providers this will place existential pressure on them and could well push some out of business, unless it is matched by extra funding to those who commission care and there was little sign of that," he said.

He said the extra £600m for social care would have "little or no impact" once shared between 152 local authorities and children's services.He added: "Any extra funding that might reach providers will be wiped off instantly by the increases in National Insurance and minimum pay which will together heap further pressure on social care providers."

Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said the increase in National Insurance "risks worsening the NHS crisis by hiking costs for care providers and pushing some to the brink".

He added: "It just shows that yet again the government seems to have forgotten about care."During labour, she was told her son Rupert had died.

"It was the worst thing that had ever happened to me, it literally feels like you’re in a horror film."It’s unbelievably painful."

She said after the birth she was told she would be given medication to dry up her milk."It felt so wrong, I knew I still wanted to donate.