US EditionCare home workers ‘almost twice as likely to be in poverty as average UK worker’
- Care home workers are more than twice as likely to live in poverty compared to the average UK worker, according to a new analysis from the Health Foundation.
- The report states that 80% of UK jobs pay more than the average care worker wage of £12 an hour in 2024, highlighting the financial struggles of care workers.
- The Health Foundation warns that many care workers face poverty and cannot meet basic needs like food and clothing.
- The Royal College of Nursing emphasized the need for the Government to swiftly implement a fair pay agreement to improve conditions for care workers.
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UK care workforce twice as likely to live in poverty
New analysis from the Health Foundation has found that the UK care workforce is twice as likely to live in poverty than the average worker. In particular, the report reveals that people working in care homes and their families are twice as likely to live in poverty as the average UK worker. Analysing national data from 2021/22 to 2023/24, the independent health charity finds that one in five residential care workers in the UK lives in poverty, m…
More than 85 per cent of the professionals in the System for Autonomy and Unit Care (SAAD) are women, half of whom are over 45 years old and one in four are migrants. Moreover, wages in the sector are on average between 35 and 38 per cent lower than the national average, which is about 10,000 euros a year less than the rest of jobs. One in four residential contracts is temporary, and in home help services only 60 per cent of contracts are indefi…
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