Petition · past parliament
Care work should be a skilled trade
Rejected
18 signatures
What the petition asks
I would like the government to recognise care workers as a skilled trade. The NHS would crash without our work and support yet we are the lowest paid and highly needed workers.
I would like the government to consider care workers to be just as skilled as any NHS worker and to at least be paid just as much as nurses. We as care workers also work very long hours caring for our elderly and vulnerable population yet only to be given the lowest paid wage and are known as unskilled.
Why it was rejected
There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.
Timeline
| 19 Mar 2020 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 8 Apr 2020 | Rejected by the Petitions Committee |
Key facts
Signatures
18
Status
Rejected
Rejected
8 Apr 2020
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.