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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Dan Warburton

Fatcat care home bosses paid themselves £7million while claiming £27million Covid relief

Fat cat care bosses paid themselves over £7million – while claiming nearly £27m from the taxpayer-funded Covid relief fund.

The GMB Union says directors at Barchester care homes hiked their own pay as underpaid staff battled through the pandemic.

Analysis of accounts of four of Barchester’s companies show they received Covid grants in 2020 totalling £26,769,000.

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