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Care work, skill and responsibility: different ways of ascribing value.

How skilled is care work, really? What is skill? Could it be more productive to define care work's value in terms of responsibility?

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Nine homecare workers react to the Employment Rights Bill

Yesterday the UK government announced something called the Employment Rights Bill. This is a proposed set of 28 improvements to workers' ...

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Our letter to MPs

Dear Member of Parliament, Subject: correspondence from Homecare Workers’ Group...

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My Story: Anonymous A

I am a migrant care worker working in domiciliary care. I am writing not just for myself but for countless other silenced migrant care...

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My Story: Kate

In those twenty years since I first started, the care industry has changed enormously. Originally there were smaller companies with...

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My Story: Anonymous E

I was very happy when the opportunity came up to work in the UK as a care assistant. I was given the impression that I would be working...

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My Story: Julie

I have worked in care for around five years now and in that time I have seen hundreds of fantastic carers leave the profession to work...

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My story: KR

I have worked in domiciliary care for nearly three years now after previously working in a nursing home. In my experience, people’s...

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My story: Rachel

I will never forget my first care visit flying solo. It was 7am on a cold weekday morning...

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Please don't look at me and pity

A poem by home care worker, Michele Parnell.

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Two Sides - poem by Michele Parnell

A poem by Michele Parnell about how a home care worker experiences a day differently to one of their clients.