Social Care Brushed Aside Again

ronib

A friend who lives in Germany wanted to know when a social care insurance scheme would be launched in the Uk. Apparently this scheme works very well in Germany and presumably care workers are paid a living wage and old people are well cared for without bankruptcy looming. Interesting observation… dream on.

I do wish any government would look around and see if other countries are doing things better than ourselves.

Social care insurance sounds a good idea to me.

there’s a long road to travel before Care Workers earn the respect they deserve

Indeed there is. Care Workers should be paid properly. The ones who looked after my mother deserve a medal, actually no they don’t, they deserve to be paid properly.

"Migrant workers have been part of the UK's social care sector for decades. Overseas workers plug vital labour gaps across almost every healthcare profession, while one in four care workers and home carers was born outside of the UK, according to the Office for National Statistics.11 Mar 2024"

Well does Germany have this problem Dickens? Or is it uniquely Uk?

Shinamae

I’m a care worker,I have been for many years and on minimum wage. I don’t particularly mind because I love the job but more pay would be appreciated because you can actually get more for working in Wetherspoons than you can looking after vulnerable people?
It’s always been the same I’m afraid Care is a very looked down upon job….

Florence Nightingale once stated that nursing was left to those who were too old, too weak, too drunken, too dirty, too stupid or too bad to do anything else. It was considered that intimate body services (intimate personal care as we now term it), were unseemly or immodest for young, unmarried or well-bred females. Especially if the caregiver was not a family member.

Cleaning and feeding another person were regarded as domestic tasks performed by servants. (Professor B Gail Thomas. A Brief History of Nursing in the UK, March 2016).

In total, from the time Florence Nightingale established nursing, up until 1983, it took 128 years for nursing to become an established profession. But ultimately it was down to the unity of nurses, their collective will and their determination to see their vocation become a profession.

... there's a long road to travel before Care Workers earn the respect they deserve.

Quotes taken from article by Paul Featherstone, founder of National Association Care & Support Workers (NACAS)

A friend who lives in Germany wanted to know when a social care insurance scheme would be launched in the Uk. Apparently this scheme works very well in Germany and presumably care workers are paid a living wage and old people are well cared for without bankruptcy looming. Interesting observation… dream on.

I’m a care worker,I have been for many years and on minimum wage. I don’t particularly mind because I love the job but more pay would be appreciated because you can actually get more for working in Wetherspoons than you can looking after vulnerable people?
It’s always been the same I’m afraid Care is a very looked down upon job….

Care workers will be paid more… so presumably end users will have to find extra money? Being old and in need of care will become even more expensive?