• Care workers cut short visits to elderly as workload soars

    One in three workers in sector are paid below the minimum wage, and long hours are affecting quality of careSocial care workers are cutting short visits to frail elderly people, or working unpaid overtime to keep up with huge workloads, a new report finds.Some are paid as little as £5 an hour for helping Britain’s growing number of older people to live at home – assisting with eating, taking medication and getting out of bed. One in three earns less than the national minimum wa

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