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Fair pay, terms and conditions for residential child care workers can be enacted now

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Fair pay terms and conditions is in the interests of children, their residential child care workers and the public interest.
Jonathan Stanley is manager of the NCERCC. Picture: NCERCC
Jonathan Stanley is manager of the NCERCC. Picture: NCERCC

It is also congruent with theory and practice of residential child care.

A fair pay agreement is an agreement that applies to all workers across entire industries or occupations. It provides minimum terms and conditions of employment across a whole sector, regardless of specific employers, for between three and five years.

The current preoccupation of government and providers is on the profits made by residential child care providers.

Reading the reports, research, blogs, comments, no one is speaking from about pay, terms and conditions

It is the residential child care workers, not the providers, who care for the children. Providers create the conditions for care.

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