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Peniel Care Home in Carmarthenshire has declared that it is going into liquidation leaving residents and care workers high and dry. Carmarthenshire Unison branch has issued this statement: “Our members and other staff working at Peniel Care Home have been informed at short  notice that the care home, where in some cases they have worked for many years, is to ...

Social care is in crisis and needs fixing. There’s no doubt about that. Over 40,000 died from Covid in care homes during the pandemic in an overwhelmingly privatised system that puts profit before safety. Average pay for care workers is a paltry £8.50 an hour. One in four are on zero-hour contracts. With that level of pay and condition it’s ...