Paying social care workers "poverty wages" is holding back the economy, Labour warns today as it steps up calls to lift staff's rate to £10 an hour.
Deputy leader Angela Rayner, a former carer, will say that giving the front line workers a wallet boost will mean "every extra pound" is spent in local businesses and high streets – not "squirrelled away in an offshore account".
She will tell the Unison Women's Conference a rise for social care "heroes" is "well overdue" and the "least that they deserve" after the last year facing coronavirus.
Ms Rayner will say: "Claps didn't pay the bills last year and it should be a source of shame for Tory ministers that the very same people who have been putting their lives on the line to care for
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