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WELSH unions agreed today to launch a public campaign to remove profit from the social care system.
Unison Cymru’s motion noted that Welsh Labour and Plaid Cymru had backed the idea of a national care service following Wales TUC’s call for it in 2021 — but cautioned that the Scottish experience showed the term could refer to a national commissioning service for private care providers, which would not address the crisis in social care.
“We have a profit problem,” Unison Cymru secretary Jess Turner told Congress. “Tens of thousands of women are trapped in in-work poverty, struggling to make ends meet despite working long and anti-social hours.
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