Care Workers

LETTERS: Bosses need to pay care workers our due

Care workers should be paid the minimum wage for sleep-in shifts (Socialist Worker, 2 August) but we’re still waiting for our back pay.

Big care firms grab a subsidy from the Tories while workers get paid peanuts

The Tory government confirmed it will “temporarily suspend” enforcement of minimum wage rules for big care firms last week, following corporate lobbying. And it has potentially handed them a huge subsidy.

Tory cuts gave the NHS one of its worst ever winters—and there’s more to come

Hospitals in England “endured one of the worst winters on record” this year, according to damning new research by the British Medical Association (BMA).

Social care will collapse unless our unions fight back against the Tories' cuts

As cuts create a massice social care crisis, care workers told Raymie Kiernan the Unison union election is chance to build resistance

Bosses evict terminally ill residents for making ‘loss’

Care home residents in Doncaster were told last week they would be evicted in 30 days because their residence is “not sustainable”.

Thirty days notice of eviction for care home residents

Care home residents in Doncaster—including many receiving end-of-life care—were told last week they were being evicted

Cuts and pennies for us, big giveaways for the rich—Hammond hammers the poor

14 March 2017
Former Tory chancellor, George “Slasher” Osborne, congratulated Philip Hammond on the chancellor’s first spring budget for its “fiscal responsibility”. It really says it all.

Antisocial Tories create an uncaring society

28 February 2017
The Tory attacks on both the NHS and social care leave vulnerable people with nowhere to go. Workers spoke to Tomáš Tengely-Evans about two sets of cuts that are creating a crisis—with a real effect on patients’ lives

Care cuts kill thousands—but councils pass the buck

21 February 2017
New analysis has linked 30,000 excess deaths in 2015 to the Tories’ health and social care cuts.

Tory ‘gentleman’s agreement’ shames the nasty party that slashed social care

14 February 2017
Tory ministers made a dodgy deal to increase social care funding with the leader of a Tory-run county council that includes several top MPs’ constituencies.

Residents left without food as care crisis grows

13 December 2016
Some care home residents face hefty bills as the quality of care gets worse, says Raymie Kiernan

Social care cuts feed back into NHS crisis

18 October 2016
Adult social care services in England are at “tipping point”, according to the Care Quality Commission watchdog.

Billions made from care home crisis

05 January 2016
Care homes are charging residents and local authorities tens of thousands every year while many care workers are paid less than the minimum wage. But nursing home bosses predict that scores will close because they are not making enough money. Raymie Kiernan says the big firms that stand behind social care are still raking it in