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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Alexandra Topping

Exploitation and low pay causing poverty among care workers, TUC finds

A care home worker carries a meal on a tray
The TUC is calling for a minimum £15 hourly wage for social care and childcare workers. Photograph: Hollie Adams/Reuters

Chronic under-investment, exploitation and low pay is leading to widespread poverty among workers in the care sector, according to damning research from the Trades Union Congress.

As it publishes its first workforce blueprint for the care economy, the TUC argues that the “Cinderella sectors” of social care and childcare need urgent investment to head off a demographic timebomb.

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