Poverty among the UK residential care workforce

This report uses national survey data to look at poverty and deprivation among residential care workers in the UK. It estimates the impact of increasing social care pay on household incomes. It finds persistently high levels of poverty and deprivation among the residential care workforce and that residential care workers and their families are nearly twice as likely to live in poverty as the average UK worker.

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