James Cleverly condemned for boast about ban on overseas care workers bringing dependents
“It makes me feel ashamed to be British”
“It makes me feel ashamed to be British”
‘Matt Hancock is living in a different world’
77% of care workers also said that low pay negatively affects their mental health
A Public Accounts Committee report this week revealed how care workers are leaving the profession due to crippling low pay – and the Government has done nothing.
Most carer workers are still being paid well under the national minimum wage. And the government isn’t doing anything about it.
Amid cuts and growing workloads, Britain’s overstretched care workers are unable to do their jobs properly. It’s the most vulnerable who lose out.
New research suggests that 160,000 care workers are being paid below the minmum wage
Between 160,000 and 220,000 care workers are unlawfully paid less than the minimum wage.