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, …
The Care Workers’ Charity (The CWC) welcomes the publication of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s new report, The Hidden Cost of Low Pay in the Social Care Sector, which lays bare the economic and operational consequences of persistently low wages in adult social care. Adult social care workers play a critical role in supporting people drawing …
The Care Workers’ Charity Responds to The King’s Fund Report: ‘Not My Priority’ – How the Public Sees Social Care The Care Workers’ Charity (CWC) welcomes the publication of ‘Not My Priority’: How the Public Sees Social Care (and What Can Be Done About It) by The King’s Fund. The report’s findings, while sobering, reflect …
The Care Workers’ Charity (CWC) welcomes today’s publication of the Skills for Care Pay in the Adult Social Care Sector in England report, which provides a vital snapshot of pay levels across the independent sector as of December 2025. While the data reveals some encouraging movement, with median care worker pay rising to £12.60 per …
Care Voices: New Collaboration Launches to Champion Adult Social and Health Care Workers as Sector Faces Deepening Crisis The Care Workers’ Charity (The CWC) and Providers Unite have today launched Care Voices, a national platform designed to strengthen communication, community, and collective advocacy across the social and health care workforce. By bringing together care workers, …