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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Aine Fox

£500m social care fair pay agreement investment just the start, says Streeting

The Government has committed to a fair pay agreement for social care workers in England (Alamy/PA) -

A half-a-billion-pound package to help boost pay and improve conditions for care workers is “just the start” with more to come, Health and Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting has said.

His comments came after trade union Unison, which describes itself as the biggest care union in the UK, insisted “substantially more” will be needed to deliver the promised national care service.

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