One in eight childcare workers in England earns much less than the minimum wage
We thought this window-writing was by a child in care. It seems it might have been by a carer instead.
This research shows all the hallmarks of Tory employment policy: early years workers – predominantly female – are considered to be of low worth and paid less than the minimum wage, and have few career options – and the Covid crisis is likely to make matters worse.
It’s Conservative policy, remember: they have victimised women since they got back into office in 2010, with the so-called austerity policies attacking women far more than men.
One in eight childcare workers in England earn less than £5 an hour, according to new research which warns that low pay, high workload and a lack of career development are having an adverse effect on the sector.
The Social Mobility Commission (SMC) report says… as many as 13% of childcare workers are paid under £5 an hour.
The workforce included apprentices, students on placement, volunteers as well as childminders, hence the low hourly rates.
Staff turnover is high at 13%, with one in six leaving their posts within a year, and 37% quitting within two years.
The report also highlights a lack of training opportunities for those who enter the workforce, which is 96% female, with just 17% of early years workers in receipt of job-related training.
Workload is high and the job carries considerable responsibility – more than one in 10 (11%) full-time early years workers reported working more than 42 hours per week, compared to 3% of retail workers.
It’s cognitive dissonance; the job is clearly highly-responsible and stressful, yet the remuneration is pitiful and there are no associated benefits.
Does this not indicate a political decision by the Tories?
That party’s notorious “nudge unit” has long been tasked with pushing people into particular decisions by making the alternative unacceptable.
Apparently they don’t want children to have professional care while we go to work.
Clearly we’ll all have to stay at home instead – or stop having children so we can go to work.
But if we stay home, what will happen to the economy?
And if we stop having children, well, there aren’t enough people working in the economy to support the current number of senior citizens, and that will only get worse if the working population diminishes – as it must in that eventuality.
So it seems that, by allowing childcare workers to be treated so badly, the Tories are deliberately trying to trash the UK economy.
And some of us voted them into office with a landslide in order to do that.
Were these voters ill, or insane, or suffering mass hysteria?
Source: One in eight childcare workers in England earn less than £5 an hour | Childcare | The Guardian
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