The Carer Digital - Issue #42

T H E P U B L I C AT I O N F O R N U R S I N G A N D R E S I D E N T I A L C A R E H O M E S

W W W. T H E C A R E R U K . C O M

The Carer Digital

THECARERUK

THECARERUK

Issue 42

Providers Back Call For £10 An Hour Carer Wage

...but call for social care reform to fund it.

“Claps didn’t pay the bills last year and it should be a source of shame for Tory

to care for others throughout the crisis are being paid poverty wages that mean they are struggling to support themselves and their own families." Labour is calling for a wage rise for care workers aged over 25 and currently receiving the minimum wage. The national minimum wage for workers over the age of 25 is £8.72 an hour. The real living wage is set by the Living Wage Foundation at £10.75 4 workers in London and £9.30 elsewhere in the UK. Half of frontline carers are paid less the real living wage, according to the Resolution Foundation. The Labour party says increasing social care workers’ pay to at least £10 an hour would result in wage increases of up to £3,500 a year, which Ms Rayner says would help secure the economy and contribute to the post-COVID-19 recovery.

ministers that the very same people who have been putting their lives on the line

(CONTINUED ON PAGE 3...)

Care providers have backed a call by the Labour party’s deputy leader Angela Rayner who has “demanded” an increase to care workers’ wages to at least £10 an hour to end the shame of "poverty wages". In a speech at the UNISON women’s conference today (February 17), Ms Rayner highlighted that failing to give care workers wages that they can live on is “morally wrong”. “Our social care workers were underpaid and undervalued even before this crisis struck.