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Originally Posted by Pierre
I have to disagree there. Basic market economics says otherwise.
It's not the only reason, but if there is no driver i.e. Lack of labour resource, to increase wages then they won't increase simple as that.
There's not a lot of money in it because they're getting away with not putting any money in it because they're paying depressed wages.
If they were forced to put more money into then at least we'd be forced into having a proper debate on how we fund social care for the ever increasing age of the population.
Perhaps a care tax or as well as having a private pension plan you have to get a private care plan?
But whilst they can get away with running the system on cheap labour they are not forced to have that uncomfortable debate.
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The system isn't working now and they're not putting much money in.
Social care was ripe for cuts in 2010 because it gets far less attention than the bigger items such as the NHS so whilst the latter was 'ringfenced' social care was cut. It's not just elderly people, the part of social care people do at least pay some attention too, it's also for adults who have various disabilities that require a lot of care.