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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.
Roger McKenzie talks to general secretary of Unison CHRISTINA McANEA about the impact of the cost-of-living crisis on members, the local government funding emergency and the threat of Reform UK
In the second part of a two-part article, CONOR BOLLINS asks why the government’s ambition when it comes to the military is not applied to sectors where it could do real good
