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Can't afford to do care work

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schratching · 03/02/2023 08:36

I loved being home with my kids and I love caring for other people. Thing is, it doesn't pay. I'm in a male dominated field as the pay is much higher but I would love to be a care worker on a respectable wage. It's heartbreaking.

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Howmanysleepsnow · 13/02/2023 11:55

SmileyClare · 04/02/2023 20:48

Come on, care homes are a lucrative business. I’m not talking about the wages of managers running the home on ground level, I’m talking about senior management.

Runwood Homes one of the biggest uk chains homes; reported a profit before tax of 25.4m in 2021. The owner received 2million in dividends in 2020 on top of a a 2.3m salary. He did really well out of the pandemic.
They cost cut, have continued low pay for staff, staff shortages. A quarter of its homes are rated requiring improvement by the CQC.

Avery health care run 56 homes in the uk, owned by the Reuben brothers (Britains second richest family) have an estimated fortune of £21.5bn.

There is obscene profiteering in social care.

The stand alone, charity run home I work in will make a couple of thousand profit or loss (depending on if local authorities pay money owed by year end)

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