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Exploitation and low pay causing poverty among care workers, TUC finds

The Guardian

AUGUST 28, 2023

TUC says urgent investment needed in ‘Cinderella sectors’ to head off demographic timebomb ‘Invisible, endless, relentless’: the reality of care work in England Chronic 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.

One in four children of UK care workers living in poverty, TUC finds

The Guardian

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The TUC said that 220,000 children – 28.4% – with at least one social care worker as a parent were in poverty, and said the number was on course to rise to nearly 300,000 by the end of this parliament unless action was taken to improve pay and conditions in the sector.

Essential workers thousand of pounds worse off than a decade ago, TUC says

The Guardian

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Urging the government to raise the minimum wage to £10 an hour, the TUC said the key workers expected to keep Britain going on 25 December had taken real pay cuts since 2010. Continue reading.

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Exploitation and low pay causing poverty among care workers, TUC finds

One in four children of UK care workers living in poverty, TUC finds

Essential workers thousand of pounds worse off than a decade ago, TUC says

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