极速赛车168最新开奖号码 Comments on: 10% national living wage hike will trigger adult social care cuts, councils warn

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: julia

julia — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 18:44:31 +0000

Whilst they managed to find tens of billions of pounds for Track and Trace and faulty PPE, they are not bothered with the elderly and disabled. Look at the disdain they demonstrated for this demographic during the pandemic. We need a root and branch reform across the whole of social care. I for one, know that you can’t support a home and family on the money paid for a thankless job that needs to be done 365 days a year and during the most unsociable hours.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 07:51:44 +0000

While £8.1b sounds like a lot of money, if it’s not enough to cover inflation, it’s a direct cut. It’s just a fluffy way of pretending that you are trying to solve the issue, but actually making it worse. This is no doubt this governments intention and sits well with a capitalist viewpoint.

If we value our services, the time for change is now, or they will not exist in the future when most of us will need them.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Chris Sterry

Chris Sterry — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 19:35:05 +0000

While £8.1 billion is welcomeed, even before the 10% increase to the National Living Wage, the increase should have been around £12 billion, so at least another 10% is required on the £12 billion. However, that will only fund to the National Living Wage of £11.44 from 1 Apriul 2024, when much more is required, the minimum starting pay rate for a social care worker has to be at least £15 per hour for more to be encouraged to enter the care profession.

Then with the alterations to migration criteria even less will come from outside the UK, so the crisis will get much worse, so this government and the next one needs to ‘pull their heads out of the sand’ and provide the funding to social care is has to have.

But, pay rates is just one of the problems for

proper travel expenses need to be paid which not only covers all mileage, but travel time as well

Statutory Sick Pay is far from sufficient so extra needs to be provide to ensure a proper sick pay arrangement is put in place

There are other but the above are the most important.

If not we can say goodbye to social care and thereafter the NHS.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Stuart Montague

Stuart Montague — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 13:00:57 +0000

I’m currently a Assistant Care Manager for a County Council. The pay rates are woeful and inadequate. Universal Credit are not interested anymore. I am stuck in a downward spiral of debt.
I case hold many people with mental health needs. I just don’t get paid enough