Care home workers ‘almost twice as likely to be in poverty as average UK worker’

A new report has found workers in care homes and their families are twice as likely to live in poverty as the average UK worker (Alamy/PA) -

Care home workers and their families are almost twice as likely to live in poverty as the average UK employee, according to research published as those in the adult social care sector await details on how the Government will ensure fairer pay.

Earlier this month, following the launch of the Government’s 10-year health plan focused on the NHS, Health Secretary Wes Streeting said he would “shortly be setting out how we will deliver the first ever fair pay agreements for the care workforce, building a real social care progression”.