Submitted on Wednesday 6th May 2020
Rejected on Wednesday 22nd July 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Raise the minimum wage for health & social care workers to £10 per hour
We hear so much about NHS workers being valued and they should be. But health & social care workers who don't work for the NHS are not valued enough. Carers are considered as 'low skilled' but do extensive training and have a huge responsibility over peoples lives.
Some supermarket and hospitality workers, who undergo no training, earn more than carers. Without carers society cannot function. It takes a highly skilled person to administer medication, deal with severe dementia, to safely transfer disabled patients, and to change things like pain patches and catheter bags. The care sector has a huge turnaround and it is obvious why - too much giving when they receive hardly anything back. Scotland has raised carers wages (if only by 3%) so why not England?
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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You may wish to sign some of these petitions:
Pay all NHS Staff at least the Real Living Wage: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/310615
Increase minimum wage for social care staff to £10.72: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/316909
Pay rise for NHS and care staff: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/313488
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