Unite reps in Edinburgh have ensured a 3.3% uplift for adult social care contracts & a Living Wage.
Unite Scotland has welcomed the move by the Edinburgh Joint Integration Board (EIJB) to allocate £6m funding for adult social care workers and personal assistants who work in the third and independent sectors.
Backdated to 1 April, social care support workers in Edinburgh will be awarded a real Living Wage of £9.30p/h, including sleepovers & hours worked by personal assistants.
The funding uplift was agreed on Monday at an EIJB meeting following extensive lobbying by Unite voluntary sector representatives in Edinburgh to ensure that adequate funding was allocated to deliver the 3.3% national uplift for adult social care contracts for the Living Wage commitment, announced by the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Jeanne Freeman MSP on 12 April.
Mary Alexander, Scottish Deputy Secretary: “This is a victory for Social Care in Edinburgh. It rightly recognises the critical role workers have, looking after vulnerable adults in Edinburgh.
“”The decision to allocate £6m will now ensure all adult social care workers commissioned by the local authority to provide adult social care whether in care homes, care at home or community-based services will not be working for less than the Living Wage of £9.30 for all hours worked including sleepovers.
“It also rightly recognises the critical role social care workers have played in looking after vulnerable adults in Edinburgh. Unite will continue to campaign for a national care service and Fair Work across the whole sector.”
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