Social Care Regulation at Work

Exploring how social care regulation impacts care work jobs in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿+🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿/ @wellcometrust funded/ PI:@DrLJBHayes/ #CareWorkWed

[Social Care Regulation at Work @SCRaWork]

Our survey on the law, #CareWorkers and care quality is live: https://t.co/uMOaWIWb8f

If you are a care worker in England, Scotland or Wales, take the survey!

If care workers follow you, please RT!

Have your views heard + help spread the word

[UNISON - UK's largest union @unisontheunion]

Supreme Court sleep-in appeal decision is blow for ​everyone in social care, says UNISON https://t.co/N4PoWUayuL

[Kev Lucas @lucas_kev]

Not uncommon for NW social care workers to be paid below £5ph for sleep in work. Today Supreme Court rules whether to outlaw this poverty pay and enable backpay claims. @NorthWestUNISON members will be watching live. Keep an eye on @StandUpForSC for updates #mencap

[UNISON - UK's largest union @unisontheunion]

Watch live this morning - judgment from the Supreme court affecting social care workers, sleep-ins and minimum wage - with potential impact on wider #ukemplaw 9.45am #sleepins

[Paddy Cleary @bluepaddy74]

Today the @UKSupremeCourt decision is handed down on ‘sleep in’ rates. Especially poignant for our members who took action over so called charities using this to drive down wages. Poverty pay is wrong and hopefully get result they deserve today @NorthWestUNISON @unisontheunion

[Lee Stribling @LeeStribling1]

#socialcare managers please let your staff know that:

We can support them if they have to:

✅ Isolate or Shield
✅ Cover the cost of a funeral for next of kin
✅ Struggle with childcare costs
They do NOT have to pay the grant back 🤲

https://t.co/n3mCNA7B93

[Social Care Regulation at Work @SCRaWork]

More coverage of @Hftonline's #socialcare findings:

➡️Almost 2/3 providers reported an increase in absenteeism due to mental health issues during #Covid19

➡️1/3 said they'd made redundancies

➡️1/10 revealed they'd had to offer care to fewer people

https://t.co/9sfTjwc37U

[Social Care Regulation at Work @SCRaWork]

Kirsty Matthews of @Hftonline:

“It is vital the government provides a cash injection specifically to ensure frontline social care staff have the mental health support they deserve, and that it is not at the expense of an already beleaguered sector.

[Social Care Regulation at Work @SCRaWork]

Social care staff a “forgotten workforce” during #Covid19 says @Hftonline.

We have uncovered similar patterns of exhaustion and mental health problems amongst care workers in our own research.

https://t.co/0ujgAEmlef @Jon_S for @Independent

[Home Care Insight 💚 @HCareInsight]

‘Poverty #wages’ for care workers ‘holding back our economy’, says #AngelaRayner https://t.co/P44JLM3Xcu

[Angeline Albert 💚 @angelineallbert]

'Claps didn't pay the bills' for care workers says Labour's deputy calling for £10 an hour wage rise
#homecare @unisontheunion @AngelaRayner
https://t.co/yGiEh47AbO

[The Care Workers' Charity 🧡 @CareWorkersFund]

The Care Workers' Charity supports thousands of social care workers in unimaginable hardship. The Gov must invest in our care workers, and the sector- and give them the pay they deserve.

End ‘poverty wages’ for social care workers, Angela Rayner demands https://t.co/CVduwo3U4m

[Stand Up For Social Care @StandUpForSC]

Great to see @AngelaRayner committing @UKLabour to at least £10 an hour pay for care workers. This is in line with our campaign ask for care worker starting salaries.

We want to work with Labour councils in the NW to make this a reality. It's time for action after the applause.

[Angela Rayner @AngelaRayner]

A pay rise is the very least that our care worker heroes deserve after all they have done for us.

Labour's demands for a pay rise to at least £10 an hour would put an extra £50 a week into the pocket of an underpaid care worker.

https://t.co/ZtB6y8cktP

[Social Care Regulation at Work @SCRaWork]

“Frontline workers were left without adequate supplies, risking their own and their families’ lives to provide treatment and care”https://t.co/PAKlTVub41 @KevinJRawlinson @GdnSocialCare

[Social Care Regulation at Work @SCRaWork]

Sadly, our @tribunemagazine piece from April is still relevant today - Care workers need proper sick pay

https://t.co/zobSKasnj8

[Social Care Regulation at Work @SCRaWork]

Reports of UK care workers having to take holiday when they are off sick with #COVID19 or see already low wages fall to £96 per week, raising fears they may not self-isolate.

https://t.co/VCKdBlk1Io @GdnSocialCare

[Social Care Regulation at Work @SCRaWork]

We reported on this issue back in April 2020. This is sadly still relevant today.

- read our report based on work with @NorthWestUNISON here

🔗https://t.co/WypTgqt4l3

[Social Care Regulation at Work @SCRaWork]

🔴‼️Self-isolating care workers need proper sick pay‼️🔴

This is both:

1⃣ A fundamental workers' rights issue + central to alleviating poverty for low-paid workers

&

2⃣ During #Covid19 a PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE

https://t.co/3uMcO0gdRU @faraghrobertson for @personneltoday

[Social Care Regulation at Work @SCRaWork]

SO much great info and insight from @closethepaygap and the #GenderPayGapManifesto hashtag at the moment! Important to so many sectors including #SocialCare

[Social Care Regulation at Work @SCRaWork]

➡️ You can read the full report from April here: https://t.co/WypTgqt4l3

➡️ We also recently submitted evidence to the @CommonsHealth on lessons learned from the first wave. You can read that report here: https://t.co/lsCh9gqVIS

[Social Care Regulation at Work @SCRaWork]

"No communication, no PPE, no respect" - please to see our research with @NorthWestUNISON used in this @SkyNews @DavidMercerSky report on care homes and #COVID19

https://t.co/JZk6RvFeAv #SocialCare