Sue Robb of 4Children talks to Julie Laughton and Alison Britton from the Department for Education about the role of childminders in delivering the 30 hours free entitlement.
New research has revealed that almost three-quarters of frontline care workers in England are earning below the ‘real’ living wage.
The proportion of care workers below the threshold is even higher in northern areas, where care homes have been hit hardest by coronavirus. For example, in the north-east, 82 per cent of care staff earned less than the England-wide real living wage of £9.50 per hour, while the proportion was 78 per cent in the north-west. The figures apply to more than 832,000 frontline care workers, more than 600,000 of whom are earning below the minimum thresholds.
The figures were calculated by the Living Wage Foundation and come amid growing calls for reform of the social care sector to create parity with the NHS, where all nurses earn above the threshold.
Analysis by the Fawcett Society shows that eight-in-ten care workers are women, with BAME and migrant women over-represented the sector. Front-line care workers are also very likely to be parents or carers themselves – and three times more likely to be single parents than the workforce as a whole.
Sue Robb of 4Children talks to Julie Laughton and Alison Britton from the Department for Education about the role of childminders in delivering the 30 hours free entitlement.
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