Open Letter Regarding National Living Wage
Leading homecare providers, who deliver over 47 million hours of homecare each year, warn the Chancellor of the Exchequer that the additional costs of the new National Living Wage could lead to a catastrophic failure of home-based care services, unless there is urgent action from Government and local councils to address underfunding.
While highly supportive of Government’s announcement of a new National Living Wage, representatives from the homecare sector published an open letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rt Hon George Osborne MP (see below).
UKHCA’s Policy Director, Colin Angel, said:
“Care providers leaving the state-funded market would cause considerable distress for people who use homecare services and their families; create a significant burden for local councils and increase the problem of people being unable to leave hospital promptly.
“We are asking the Chancellor to bring about changes in the funding of homecare to ensure that workers benefit from Government’s policy, while still enabling these vital services to remain economically viable.”
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