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Employees who work in a care home should be considered skilled and professionals

Submitted on Saturday 28th March 2020

Rejected on Tuesday 12th May 2020

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)

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Employees who work in a care home should be considered skilled and professionals

Petition Details

Employees who work in care homes (especially care assistants) should be titled as skilled professionals just like NHS employees. They should also get increased wages for the work they do. Additionally, they should be required for more training.

Additional Information

Personally working as a care assistant in an elderly care home, it takes an incredible amount of training, responsibility and a constant positive mindset to work in these environments. Most of these skills cannot be taught. It can be physically and mentally draining for an employee in a care home; they have people's lives in their hands just as much as NHS employees do. They seem to be forgotten about. Where is our recognition for the work we do? Where is our respect?


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

The Government is not responsible for designating workers as skilled, except in reference to certain immigration matters, and is also not responsible for the pay of privately employed workers.

We have published a petition calling on the Government to consider social care as equally important to NHS, which you might like to sign: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/302897

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