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Low pay is driving tens of thousands of workers out of social care, report warns
NHS workers on the picket line outside St Thomas' Hospital, London, ahead of a march from the hospital to Trafalgar Square, as members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) and the Unite union continue their strike action in a dispute over pay, May 1, 2023
LOW pay is driving tens of thousands of workers out of social care, a report warned today.
The Community Integrated Care charity said that staff in the sector are paid a third less than their NHS counterparts.
It argued that they need a 36 per cent wage increase — equivalent to £7,617 a year — and noted that there are currently 152,000 vacancies for care workers.
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