Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Who cares?

It's all fine and well the government launching a new recruitment drive for the care industry in which young people are "targeted". But perhaps they should have started by pondering exactly why there are so many vacancies in the sector - in excess of 100,000. Might it be because, like other similar professions, care work is grotesquely undervalued in terms of both pay and status (and hence is disproportionately undertaken by young people already)?

Anyway, nice to see the Tories have rolled out the Every Day Is Different campaign just in time for Brexit, which is pretty much guaranteed to make the situation worse - unless they suddenly acknowledge the vital work that supposedly "unskilled" non-British citizens do in propping up the country.

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