Care workers are earning less than the minimum wage thanks to a “loophole” that means they are not paid for time travelling between visits, Labour has said. The party’s deputy
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One of the UK’s largest home care providers has pledged to train up and employ 500 refugees from Afghanistan as carers. Over the next five years Cera aims to recruit,
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The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has told The Regard Group – Domiciliary Care Cornwall, that further urgent improvements are needed following an inspection which found people using the service were
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Home care company Alcedo Care Group has secured a £2million funding facility with merchant banking group Close Brothers to support its growth plans for the rest of this calendar year.
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The finance manager of a care provider has been jailed for six years for defrauding his employer out of nearly £200,000. Bradley Young (pictured), 24, of Forest End, Waterlooville, Hampshire,
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Domiciliary care services continued to grow during the pandemic according to data from Skills for Care’s latest ‘The size and structure of the adult social care sector and workforce in
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A domiciliary care worker, based in Pontypool and Ebbw Vale, has been removed from the Register of Social Care Workers after she was convicted of stealing from a vulnerable service
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Loneliness can be defined as a state or feeling where an individual feels separated from meaningful interactions and relationships, be that through physical distance or emotional distance. Loneliness can be
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Union and charity leaders have joined forces to urge the Government to reform minimum wage laws affecting thousands of care workers. Unison and Mencap have written jointly to the Prime
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Carers who have to sleep at their workplace in case they are needed overnight are not entitled to the minimum wage for their whole shift, the Supreme Court has ruled.
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