News Snapshot:
Carers across Liverpool are having to work as much as 70 hours a week on what they describe as “poverty pay” just to make ends meet and provide the level of support people require. Workers on minimum wage have told the ECHO how they have “no family life” and are “pressured into working overtime” to ensure services are still able to run. Despite the long hours, the low pay means care workers remain “skint” at a time when cost of living intensifies and are now campaigning to see the introduction of the foundation living wage. Nationally there are 165,000 vacancies...
