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Care workers Jane Ward (left) and Cath Roe on their rounds at Ashwood Court residential care home in Lowton, Warrington
LABOUR demanded today that Boris Johnson finally publish his promised plan to fix social care, which should include a pay guarantee of at least the real living wage for all care workers.
On his first day in office, the Prime Minister promised to fix the crisis in social care with a plan he said he had already prepared. But now it will not be published until next year.
Deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner said it was “unconscionable” and a “moral outrage” that the average wage for a care worker is £8.10 an hour while half of care workers do not earn the real living wage which is at least £9.30, and £10.75 in London.
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
‘People up and down the country are asking whose side is the Labour government on and coming up with the answer: not workers,’ Unite general secretary Sharon Graham says
