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Concerns Raised Over Care Worker Pay & Safety
A new report has highlighted concerns over pay and safety within the adult social care sector. Funded by Unbound Philanthropy, the report also shows that the scale of low pay is likely to be far worse than official data suggests – with unlawful underpayment of the National Living Wage ‘potentially widespread’. The report, entitled Who cares?, combined new statistical analysis with findings from a series of focus groups with frontline social care workers.
As well as poor pay, Resolution Foundation heard about the safety concerns of those who took part in the study. Focus group participants who work in residential homes told the think tank that, due to widespread worker shortages, tasks that require at least two people present were often being carried out by a single worker.
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