TUC comments on damning Resolution Foundation report on social care

Commenting on today’s (Thursday) report by the Resolution Foundation on the workforce crisis in social care, TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak said:

“This report lays bare the terrible working conditions and poverty pay many social care staff experience.

“Social care workers put their lives at risk during the pandemic and are at the sharp end of the current winter pressures.

“They deserve to be treated with dignity at work – not like disposable labour.

“Unless we urgently improve pay and conditions in social care vacancy rates will continue to skyrocket. And hospitals will continue to struggle to discharge patients.

“That’s why the TUC is calling for £15 an hour minimum wage as soon as possible. And why we are calling for unions, employers and government to work together on sector-wide fair pay agreements.

“This would help set fair levels of pay, training and employment standards for social care.

“The social care workforce is in crisis. We need a proper plan to fix it.”