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• Sixfold rise in foreign care workers in UK complaining of exploitation

  19-08-2024 21:00
  
  Exclusive: RCN renews call for investigation into sector as unscrupulous employers target vulnerable workersThe number of foreign social care workers reporting that they are trapped in exploitative contracts has risen sixfold in the last three years, in the latest evidence of widespread abuse of migrants in the British care system.Data from the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) shows that the organisation was contacted 134 times in 2023-24 by care workers reporting that their employers were demandi
  
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• Ellena McCabe obituary

  19-08-2024 18:41
  My friend Ellena McCabe, who has died aged 104, was the inspiration behind the creation of a social care reform campaign in Scotland at the age of 99, when she complained about standards in Scottish nursing homes.As a resident of a care home herself, Ellena’s concerns led to the creation of BetterCareScotland, the charity of which I am director of research, and which aims to get the Social Work and Care Inspectorate to properly address alleged abuses. Ellena was the campaign’s drivin
  
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• Unpaid carer says DWP’s fraud prosecution threat was ‘like blackmail’

  19-08-2024 06:00
  
  Clemency Jacques told to pay extra £1,300 for accidental carer’s allowance breach or have case sent to CPSA vulnerable unpaid carer threatened by benefits officials with prosecution for fraud unless she agreed to pay a £1,300 penalty for an accidental breach of carer’s allowance earnings rules has described her experience as “like blackmail”.Clemency Jacques, a carer for her disabled son, was told by Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) investigators her cas
  
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