A foster carer is taking a council to employment tribunal for rights equivalent to a worker. She is arguing foster carers are vulnerable to discrimination and unfair treatment.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41543651
On the radio the argument against was that foster caring is a vocation soshouldnt be paid like a job.
I think it should be treated like a job, it is work, it's providing a valuable public service and should be recognised as such.
I think caring is undervaluedin society and this is to the detriment of women.
And I think there us a creeping discourse of "it's a vocation" being used to justify underpaying people in traditional female careers - have heard this about teaching, social work and increasingly medicine.
What do you think?
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Should foster carers be treated like workers or is it a vocation?
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QuentinSummers · 09/10/2017 20:22
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