No free lunch: who will cover the bill for fair care worker pay?
Fair pay in social care: who's going to pay for it?
In the UK, 1 in 5 residential care workers is in poverty and more than 1 in 10 risks going without food.
The government has promised care workers a ‘fair pay agreement’. While there's broad support in principle, there’s a lot of detail still to be worked out – not least who will pay for it, says Simon Bottery.