Pay volunteer carers the national minimum wage with full employment rights.

Many carers have to give up jobs and careers in order to do a job that the local authority should be doing and get little or no thanks and support. Full time carers should be at least entitled to the minimum wage and statutory holidays with replacement care provided by local authorities. Anything less than this is just slave labour with the government taking unfair advantage of an unrecognized, unapreciated and valuable work force that, last year, paid for the NHS budget