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The following blog was written by Hannah Reseigh Lincoln, a member of Homecare Workers’ Group. “Unskilled”, “uneducated”, “bum wipers”...

The following blog was written by Julie Sansom, a member of Homecare Workers’ Group. Last night I worked for six and a half hours, from...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

A poem by home care worker, Michele Parnell.

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