Petition · past parliament · Department of Health and Social Care

Increase the minimum wage for care workers

Closed 128 signatures

What the petition asks

I want all carers wages to be paid more than the current national minimum wage. They work far too hard to be getting paid pennies.
All care workers are working extremely hard through the pandemic and the cold icy weather and still giving their service users their best care they can despite all of it. I don’t think the current minimum wage is worth all the hassle they are going through, especially when footballers get paid millions for kicking a ball about. We’ve got people’s lives in our hands, we deserve more. We deserve to be acknowledged a bit more.

Timeline

25 Jan 2021 Petition opened for signatures
25 Jul 2021 Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 128
Status Closed
Department Department of Health and Social Care
Opened 25 Jan 2021
Closed 25 Jul 2021

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.