In its manifesto, Labour promised to negotiate a fair pay agreement for adult social care in order to boost the workforce’s pay, terms and conditions. However, as with the recently scrapped charging reforms, it did not allocate any resource to this.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies has calculated that, if this involved setting a sector minimum wage that was £2 an hour above the national living wage (NLW), it could cost the public sector about £750m-£1.2bn a year.
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