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William Ton

Call to mandate minimum training for aged care workers

Aged care reforms including screening to exclude unstable workers are set to take effect in July. (Alan Porritt/AAP PHOTOS)

Aged care patients could have better quality and safer care if the government mandated minimum training requirements for workers, a new report states.

By requiring all aged care workers to have at least a certificate III, care residents would be safer while workers would have better career progression opportunities, leading to more stability in the industry, it says.

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