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Investment in social care will boost the economy, report finds

INVESTMENT in Britain’s shattered social care sector would boost the whole economy and take pressure off the NHS, a new report has stated.

But instead it is short of 152,000 workers and its skilled staff are among the lowest-paid in the country.

The report, Carenomics, is published by the Future Social Care Coalition (FSCC) whose member organisations include public-sector union Unison.

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