In these difficult times I keep hearing the phase "they should get a better job if they don't like their pay" but what happens when THEY do?
Let's start with Heath Care Assistant's/Home carers. So they continue to leave the profession in droves, due to low pay and how society views them as low skilled. They don't get replaced as the pay is too low to attract young people so what happens to our OAP's and disabled members of society? I see a couple of possibilities. The Government makes families legally more responsible for them. Why should the state be paying out for expensive care when they could make it the law for children to look after their own parents. With a change in the law they could reduce care home bills, home care packages and bed blocking in one fell swoop for the bargain price of £69.70 a week. The second option could be to massively reduce the threshold of assets before the state will give you help with costs. Own a house mortgage free, no reason for the state to subsidize you when you can prepay your home care with equity release as paying for private home help will have to get a lot more expensive for the workers to consider it.
Next TA's. Many experienced TA's and LSA's are leaving because £12,000 a year is not nearly enough. Eventually schools are going to be left with only fully funded 1-1's. ECHP's will become a postcode lottery because schools will stay out of it and leave parents to fight for their rights. With a lack of suitable candidates needs won't be met not only impacting the child needing the support but the other 29 kids in the class. More teachers will quit and the vicious circle will continue to eat itself. What the Government could do then is make it easier for schools to exclude and harder for parents to get support. Why should the nice middle class MAT school support little Johnny who throws chairs and swears when they can kick him out and put the onus on the parents to sort out his education.
If we continue this Tory race to the bottom what do you envisage happening in your underfunded public sector? And if you think public servants shouldn't strike for better conditions can you explain how you think society will be better with many services merely operating on the profit motive?