SOCIAL care workers who were “abandoned” following the Covid-19 pandemic will meet with SNP ministers today to demand “nothing but fairness.”

The workers will stage a rally with their union, GMB Scotland, outside the Scottish Parliament, before a delegation takes their concerns about deteriorating conditions in the sector to a meeting with SNP Health Secretary Neil Gray and Social Care Minister Maree Todd.

Despite the workers being on the front line during the pandemic, a GMB Scotland survey found that 62 per cent believed working conditions had deteriorated since then, 82 per cent said staffing levels were no better and 52 per cent had seen no improvement in safety procedures.