Barbara Keeley MP, Labour’s Shadow Cabinet Minister for Social Care, commenting on the
issue of back pay for sleep-in shifts by care staff, said:
“There has still been
no resolution on the issue of care workers receiving back pay for
sleep-in shifts.
“The Tory Government’s
lack of action is causing great uncertainty for our social care
workforce. Tory Ministers need to ensure that care workers receive the money
they have rightfully earned. Anything less would undermine the very
principle of a statutory minimum wage and could encourage providers to
plead poverty to get out of their duty to pay their care workforce properly.
“Good pay
and conditions are essential to delivering good quality care for service
users. This Tory Government needs to stop burying its head in the sand about the
problems they have caused in social care and put the funding of social
care on a long-term sustainable footing.“
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