Just like to add I’m in contact with local MPs BBC news , journalist for sun newspaper
And the mirror cheif editor
MP did make a change with unpaid carers providing care at home to relatives

I’m a live in care provider and there is still great demand for improvement within this industry,I’m NHS professionals band 6 mental health practitioner pay is £11ph fair pay ??

Disgusting!
Should be receiving the same pay as NHS
Our rotation can vary from 2 weeks on/4 off nobody can run a home with insignificant funds.

I am also an active blogger and correspond with my local MP on numerous matters on a regular basis.

I welcome the involvement of Skills for Care, but to really solve social care much more investments are required and on a regular sustained basis, for without social care will virtually cease to exist, even much more than currently. In doing so this will have drastic consequences if social care fails to do so. on the NHS, which also could well not survive. The staffing crisis is not just in public social care bodies, but also in the private/voluntary sectors and as in many instances in the UK the main problems are pay and working conditions.

In many other instances, it is the pay scales that have been left to stagnate, but in carer sectors, it is not just stagnation, but the total inappropriate starting pay levels. For many care workers, their starting pay level is the National Living Wage or just above which has been forever, but for the responsibilities that care workers take on the starting pay rate has to be much higher, than the National Living Rate of £10.42 but in reality more around £14/15 per hour and then increase annually in inline with inflation. But their working condition also needs to be improved as for many holidays, especially Bank Holidays are failing to be recognised, let alone payments for other expenses incurred.

Yes. many care workers are in the private sector, but the funding for their employers comes mainly from Local Authorities. This is especially so when a person in need of care gets funding in the form of a Direct Payment from a Local Authority (LA) or if there is some element of health care then a Personal Health Budget from the Continuing Health Care which was under the old CCG, (Clinical Commissioning Group) but now the ICSs (Integrated Care Systems) to pay their own Personal Assistants (PAs). While the person in need pays their own PAs the pay rate is determined by their local LA or ICS.

Even obtaining a PA is now very difficult due to the rates of pay and leads to a severe reduction in the amount and quality of care being received.

With this government and the next even with a chan get of party in control, I don’t see any prospects for saving social care and with that the NHS, no matter what promises are uttered by the government in power. For without a viable social care the NHS is virtually doomed itself.

The situation is really, so dire, but not apparently, by government actions, or more to the point inactions.