Pay more than minimum wage to care home staff

Through this awful time care home staff have been on the front line looking after elderly people and putting themselves at risk of contracting covid 19 and all for minimum wage or slightly above. This has to change.

You may wish to sign some of these petitions:

Increase minimum wage for social care staff to £10.72: Increase minimum wage for social care staff to £10.72

Raise the minimum wage for Domiciliary Care Workers to £12 per hour immediately: Raise the minimum wage for Domiciliary Care Workers to £12 per hour immediately

You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:

www.gov.uk/coronavirus
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

The Government has also created an online service to help you find out what you can do if you’re struggling because of coronavirus: https://www.gov.uk/find-coronavirus-support

You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/coronavirus-covid-19-anxiety-tips

You can read impartial analysis of the Government response to coronavirus and policy developments here: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/

You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak.

Find out more: https://committees.parliament.uk/work/192/the-governments-response-to-coronavirus/