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The following blog was written by Julie Sansom, a member of Homecare Workers’ Group. Last night I worked for six and a half hours, from...

It’s been a big year for Homecare Workers’ Group. Here’s an overview of what we’ve learned in 2024, and our plans for 2025...

Members of Homecare Workers' Group contributed to this submission to a government call for evidence by the Centre for Care.

How skilled is care work, really? What is skill? Could it be more productive to define care work's value in terms of responsibility?

On Tuesday 22nd October, I spoke with Wes Streeting MP, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care...

Yesterday the UK government announced something called the Employment Rights Bill. This is a proposed set of 28 improvements to workers' ...

Dear Member of Parliament, Subject: correspondence from Homecare Workers’ Group...

I am a migrant care worker working in domiciliary care. I am writing not just for myself but for countless other silenced migrant care...

In those twenty years since I first started, the care industry has changed enormously. Originally there were smaller companies with...

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...

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...

I have worked in domiciliary care for nearly three years now after previously working in a nursing home.  In my experience, people’s...

I will never forget my first care visit flying solo. It was 7am on a cold weekday morning...

It is refreshing to see the new government framing care workers in a light that is reflective of the true commitment our work involves.

Last week three members of Homecare Workers’ Group spent the day at Social Care Future’s Building People Power event in Manchester.

Members of Homecare Workers’ Group learned about the trial at a meeting with adult social care leaders from local authorities last week incl

274 care workers have signed up to date. Here are some of our key milestones.

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:

Representatives of the social care sector have collaborated to produce a thorough workforce strategy for social care.