What The Fair Pay Agreement Means To Me Written by Princess, A Member of The Care Worker Advisory Board and Champions Project. I have worked as a care worker for over three years. Over that time, I have supported people across many different settings: home care, residential homes, and units supporting those with dementia, learning …
Immigration Has a Human Cost Written by Omatule, A Member of The Care Worker Advisory Board and Champions Project. I arrived in the UK in October 2022 with my spouse and 5 year old child under the health and care work visa to work as care worker. Part of the requirement of the visa then was that I would …
The Casey Commission is Talking About My Future Blog by Hannah Reseigh-Lincoln, Support worker and member of the Care Worker Advisory Board and Champions Project It was 5am on a cold, wet and dark November morning in 2025 when I woke very early to make the 30-minute walk to the train station. I was ready to start my journey to …
What a C.Q.C Inspection feels like – from my side of the door! Written By Caroline A Member of The Care Worker Advisory Board and Champions Project. O.M.G. We are due a visit from C.Q.C. Have I completed my daily health and safety checks? As a key worker, are my residents P.C.P’s and H.A.P’s up to date? …
London, 2nd July 2026 Improvement Is Not the Same as Fair: The Care Workers’ Charity Responds to DHSC’s Adult Social Care Workforce Survey Report 2026 The Care Workers’ Charity (The CWC) has today urged caution against complacency in adult social care, as comparative analysis of its 2025 Care Worker Wellbeing Survey alongside the Department of …
New guide calls on decision-makers to co-produce with care workers, not just consult them The Care Workers’ Charity publishes an updated, practical guide to centring care workers in the decisions that shape their work, and invites the sector to put it into practice with CWC’s support London, 26th June 2026 — The Care Workers’ Charity today publishes an …
London, 25th June 2026 Some of this week’s news coverage has centered on a single figure from the Migration Advisory Committee: the estimate that an overseas care worker who arrived in 2022/23 will have a net lifetime fiscal impact of around minus £36,000. It has been described as a “staggering bill” and used to argue for extending the qualifying period …
Lowest vacancy rate in a decade, but built on a closing international route and a falling domestic workforce London, 24nth June 2026 The Care Workers’ Charity welcomes Skills for Care’s The size and structure of the adult social care sector and workforce in England, 2025/26, which reports the lowest vacancy rate in a decade and another …
The Care Workers’ Charity looks forward to working with the next Labour leader and Prime Minister, and urges them to act now on social care reform. London, 22nd June 2026 The Care Workers’ Charity thanks Sir Keir Starmer for his service as Prime Minister and for the commitments his government made to adult social care. Under his leadership, Labour set out …
The Care Workers’ Charity responds to Care England’s The Overlooked Majority, welcoming its central finding that inequality in care is experienced far more often than it is recognised. London, 8th June 2026 The Care Workers’ Charity (CWC) welcomes The Overlooked Majority: Gender Inequality in the Care Sector by Care England, a report we were glad …