The Care Workers’ Charity Responds to the Skills for Care SC-WRES Report 2025: Racial Inequities Must Be Treated as a Workforce Crisis, Not a Side Conversation The Care Workers’ Charity (The CWC) welcomes the publication of the Social Care Workforce Race Equality Standard (SC-WRES) Annual Report 2025/26 by Skills for Care. Whilst we are disappointed, …

What are the National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage? The National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage are the minimum pay per hour you are entitled to by law. Your employer must pay you at least this amount – it is illegal to pay you less. The National Living Wage refers to the highest …

Rising fuel costs are being felt across the country. For adult social care workers, a workforce of nearly two million people already among the lowest paid in the UK, that pressure does not land equally. It lands on a workforce already navigating chronically low wages, high vacancy rates, and growing clinical responsibilities that are rarely …

The Care Workers’ Charity (CWC) has today published its 2025 Impact Report, offering a detailed account of the financial, professional and mental wellbeing challenges facing paid adult social care workers across the UK, and the breadth of support the Charity provided in response. In 2025, CWC awarded 864 grants totalling £366,316, processed in an average …

Progress on Paper, Precarity in Practise: The Care Workers’ Charity Responds to The King’s Fund Social Care 360 Report. The King’s Fund Social Care 360 Report points to encouraging signs: falling vacancy rates, rising spending and more people receiving publicly funded care than at any point in the last decade. The Care Workers’ Charity welcomes this …

Elevation is proud to be renewing their sponsorship at The Care Workers’ Charity (CWC) as a Gold Sponsor, continuing its commitment to raising awareness of the vital support the charity provides. This partnership will help extend the reach of the CWC, ensuring that even more care workers in need can access essential support. Jacob Hurtley, …

The Care Workers’ Charity Publishes Landmark Report on Delegated Healthcare Activities  The Care Workers’ Charity has today published The Care Workers’ View: Delegated Healthcare Activities. Drawing on 358 survey responses and two roundtables with care workers, the report provides evidence on how clinical delegation operates across adult social care today, and what is needed to make it safe, fair and sustainable for …

The Care Workers’ Charity welcomes the publication of Homecare Voices’ report Behind Closed Doors: The Realities of Employment in Domiciliary Care, which highlights the challenges faced by many homecare workers across the UK. The worker-led research offers valuable insight into the day-to-day realities of domiciliary care and raises significant concerns about pay practices, rota instability and workforce …

The Care Workers’ Charity welcomes the publication of the latest edition of Community Integrated Care’s ‘Unfair to Care’ report, which again highlights the deep-rooted inequalities affecting the adult social care workforce and the mounting pressures facing the sector. Now in its fifth year, the report adds to the growing body of evidence on the persistent …

The Care Workers’ Charity Responds to Baroness Casey’s Speech at the Nuffield Trust Summit The Care Workers’ Charity welcomes Baroness Casey’s address to the Nuffield Trust Summit and the serious, unflinching account she has given of the structural challenges facing adult social care. Her words reflect much of what care workers tell us every day, …