Extract from Committee stage (Lords) (day 1) of the Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill - Sep 7
Tuesday, 8 September 2020 08:41
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Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (Lab):...We also have the problem that the
Government classify social care workers as unskilled. Unskilled? As
Mencap points out, their colleagues are trusted every day with
people’s lives. They are trained to provide medication, to
undertake feeding, to deal with seizures and to administer first
aid. They help people manage their finances, their health and their
well-being, and they provide emotional support. Unskilled they are
not. Yet as Unison has pointed out,...Request free trial
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