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

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