GMB, the union for care workers, has responded to the new social care cap, passed by the House of Commons.
Rachel Harrison, GMB National Officer, said:
“Our broken social care system needs complete overhaul – it's not going to be fixed by taxing hard up pensioners.
“Care faces a staffing catastrophe as minimum wage workers struggle to make ends meet as private equity sharks extract all the profit.
“It’s completely dysfunctional – and if social care goes down, the NHS goes down too.
“Whatever way we fund social care – and taking everything from those who have the least is not the way to do it – the system will continue to fail unless cash is ring-fenced for workers.
"That’s why GMB is campaigning for a £15 an hour minimum for care workers.”
