England

 Three quarters of England’s care workers earn below ‘real’ living wage

The article fails to include a fundamental facto: care as a source of profit in an extremist market.

“The pandemic has also exposed the privatised care system as catastrophically unfit and ill-prepared. In 1993, 95% of care at home was provided publicly by local authorities. Now, almost all of it – and almost all residential care – is provided by private companies. Even before the pandemic, the system was falling apart, as many care companies, unable to balance the needs of their patients with the demands of their shareholders, collapsed, often with disastrous consequences.”

Both Tory and New Labour governments were responsible.