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• ‘Invisible, endless, relentless’: the reality of care work in England

  29-08-2023 06:00
  
  Sarah, an adult social care worker, has seen lower wages, more insecure work and years of staff shortages• Exploitation and low pay causing poverty among care workers, says TUC“Unless you’ve actually experienced some sort of care in your life, it’s an invisible job,” says Sarah*, a senior adult social care worker who has more than two decades of experience.“It’s an endless job. It’s a relentless job. With the ridiculous pay and the way we’re t
  
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• Exploitation and low pay causing poverty among care workers, TUC finds

  29-08-2023 06:00
  
  TUC says urgent investment needed in ‘Cinderella sectors’ to head off demographic timebomb‘Invisible, endless, relentless’: the reality of care work in EnglandChronic under-investment, exploitation and low pay is leading to widespread poverty among workers in the care sector, according to damning research from the Trades Union Congress.As it publishes its first workforce blueprint for the care economy, the TUC argues that the “Cinderella sectors” of social car
  
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