Care work, skill and responsibility: different ways of ascribing value.
How skilled is care work, really? What is skill? Could it be more productive to define care work's value in terms of responsibility?
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When a homecare worker met Wes Streeting, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care...
On Tuesday 22nd October, I spoke with Wes Streeting MP, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care...
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Nine homecare workers react to the Employment Rights Bill
Yesterday the UK government announced something called the Employment Rights Bill. This is a proposed set of 28 improvements to workers' ...
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Our letter to MPs
Dear Member of Parliament,
Subject: correspondence from Homecare Workers’ Group...
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My Story: Anonymous A
I am a migrant care worker working in domiciliary care. I am writing not just for myself but for countless other silenced migrant care...
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My Story: Kate
In those twenty years since I first started, the care industry has changed enormously. Originally there were smaller companies with...
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My Story: Anonymous E
I was very happy when the opportunity came up to work in the UK as a care assistant. I was given the impression that I would be working...
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My Story: Julie
I have worked in care for around five years now and in that time I have seen hundreds of fantastic carers leave the profession to work...
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My story: KR
I have worked in domiciliary care for nearly three years now after previously working in a nursing home. In my experience, people’s...
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My story: Rachel
I will never forget my first care visit flying solo. It was 7am on a cold weekday morning...
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Prime Minister calls for improved perceptions of care workers
It is refreshing to see the new government framing care workers in a light that is reflective of the true commitment our work involves.
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Helpful story-telling and community organising
Last week three members of Homecare Workers’ Group spent the day at Social Care Future’s Building People Power event in Manchester.
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Leeds trials alternative to 'time-and-task' homecare
Members of Homecare Workers’ Group learned about the trial at a meeting with adult social care leaders from local authorities last week incl
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One year of Homecare Workers' Group 🎉
274 care workers have signed up to date. Here are some of our key milestones.
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Living Wage Award for Homecare Workers' Group
Homecare Workers' Group was awarded the Health & Social Care Champion award at this year's Living Wage Awards. Here's a short clip about it:
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Workforce strategy for social care
Representatives of the social care sector have collaborated to produce a thorough workforce strategy for social care.
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Managing stress as a care worker
Care work comes with pressure. What can we do to ensure those high-pressure moments do not lead to stress? The topic of our online meetup.
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Want to keep more staff in home care? Then pay us for our working time.
If you are not paid for the time you spend travelling between clients, your true hourly rate of pay is much lower than you think.
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Social care at the General Election 2024: what's being proposed?
A breakdown of what the leading political parties in England have to say about social care in their manifestos.
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Please don't look at me and pity
A poem by home care worker, Michele Parnell.
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