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Social care workers strike over ‘carrying out social work tasks without extra pay’

28-07-2024 23:27

Social care workers have taken strike action claiming that their council is requiring them to carry out tasks appropriate for social workers but without commensurate pay.
Up to 200 social care support and hearing impairment officers from Lancashire council began a walkout over four days on Friday (26 July) in protest about how their roles are graded by the authority.
Their roles involve carrying out assessments and arranging and reviewing care packages for adults in the county. According to thei

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Millions wasted, lives blighted: time to end the carer’s allowance scandal

28-07-2024 17:00

Changes will be complex and expensive, but so is the moral and economic cost of not resolving this sorry tale of misery and injusticeKey workers quit jobs to avoid cash penalties for breaching carer’s allowance‘DWP threatened to send in bailiffs’: the unpaid carers told to repay benefitThe carer’s allowance overpayments scandal is surely one of the great public policy failures of recent years: a tale of official negligence and cruelty that has seen hundreds of millions of

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Key workers quit jobs to avoid cash penalties for breaching carer’s allowance

28-07-2024 17:00

Exclusive: Teachers and NHS staff forced to take desperate measures to avoid falling foul of earnings limits, says ‘devastating’ study‘DWP threatened to send in bailiffs’: the unpaid carers told to repay benefitAnalysis: Millions wasted, lives blighted: time to put an end to the carer’s allowance scandalTeachers, NHS staff and other key workers who balance part-time work with caring for loved ones are quitting their jobs to avoid being hit with huge cash penalties f

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‘DWP threatened to send in bailiffs’: the unpaid carers told to repay benefit

28-07-2024 17:00

Carer’s allowance ‘cliff edge’ means it has to be paid back if a penny is earned over threshold. Carers tell their storiesA report by Carers UK has found teachers, NHS staff and other key workers who balance part-time work with caring for loved ones are quitting their jobs to avoid being hit with huge cash penalties for breaching carer’s allowance rules. We speak to people affected by the crisis. Continue reading...

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‘We got failed by the police’: how veterans of Leeds riots stepped in to defuse disorder

28-07-2024 11:00

A group of Muslim men put themselves in danger to calm unrest in Harehills over children being taken into careNadsy Qurban bent his neck to show how the crown of his head was covered in a number of burns, each the size of coins. “The smell was like I’m burning some goat or something, like I’m cooking some goat. That’s how bad it was,” he said.Needless to say, it hurt. But a week on, the burns he gained while putting out fires during unrest in the Harehills area

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