MPs given extra £10k each for home working expenses. Meanwhile @ukhca & @CPA_SocialCare have been fighting for weeks to get extra money from LAs to #careworkers on the frontline, with limited success & @CareWorkersFund is struggling to raise money

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/coronavirus-mps-given-extra-10-000-each-for-home-working-expenses-w0h5sx99l

Especially as careworkers are being expected to cope on their own & do tasks that normally qualified professionals undertake, e.g., certification of death, wound care, insulin injections. Government cannot call careworkers “unskilled”, justify low pay, and expect all this.