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• Nearly half of England’s care workers get less than real living wage, study finds

  09-06-2024 16:00
  
  Exclusive: Campaigners say next government should match policy in Scotland and Wales ensuring adequate payNearly half of all care workers in England earn less than a real living wage, according to research.Analysis by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) for the Living Wage Foundation found that 400,000 workers in social care (43% of the workforce) in England are paid less than £12 an hour, the amount required to cover living costs. In London the picture is even starker, with 80
  
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• ‘I literally work to pay bills’: A care worker’s struggle to make ends meet

  09-06-2024 16:00
  
  As research reveals half of care workers in England earn less than living wage, Matt shares his own struggle in the sectorNearly half of all care workers in England are paid less than the living wage, according to research.Analysis carried out by the Institute for Public Policy Research for the Living Wage Foundation found that 400,000 workers in social care are paid less than £12 an hour, the amount required to cover living costs. Continue reading...
  
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• Vulnerable children locked up and ‘gravely damaged by the state’, former top family judge warns

  09-06-2024 06:00
  
  Sir James Munby says measure reflects government’s ‘shocking moral failure’ to help those in England and Wales with complex needs• Judges are sick of locking up vulnerable children who just need help. Why has nothing been done?Vulnerable children with complex needs are being locked away in unregulated placements and are being “gravely damaged by the state” while their parents are driven to despair, according to England and Wales’s former top family judge.
  
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• Vulnerable children locked up and ‘gravely damaged by the state’, England’s former top family judge warns

  09-06-2024 06:00
  
  Sir James Munby says measure reflects government’s ‘shocking moral failure’ to help those with complex needs• Britain’s judges are sick of locking up vulnerable children who just need help. Why has nothing been done?Vulnerable children with complex needs are being locked away in unregulated placements and are being “gravely damaged by the state” while their parents are driven to despair, according to England’s former top family judge. Sir James Munb
  
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