'Our in-house fostering service offers the ‘gold standard’ for care. It’s time we valued the workers and social care professionals who make it that way.' | jonmolyneuxSGP ✍️
In this summer, which has seen many inspiring shows of industrial unity, we should also come together to fight for a group of workers - Glasgow’s 800 foster carers - who do one of the most selfless, most important jobs in our city and who haven’t had any increase to their basic allowances in more than ten years.Now, with double-digit inflation, that means they are being expected to look after some of the most vulnerable young people in the city with a third less than they did a decade ago.
In the past few years, a group of Glasgow foster carers have started to organise through the IWGB trade union. They are fighting for their rights and making their voices heard.chambers. In the Council budget earlier this year we asked the Integration Joint Board, which has decision-making authority for social care spending in the city, to put around £2m towards an immediate 10% uplift and to restore inflation-linked increases going forwards.
Since then, we have secured a commitment to hold a summit meeting, so carers and their union representatives can be heard.for that is under way and I hope it leads to the rights and dignity of these vital workers being given far greater priority. But it needs to happen soon. The Fostering Standards report, published last year, highlighted that low remuneration for foster carers has costs for children growing up in low paid households. Foster children have a higher likelihood of living in poverty than children not living in foster care. Growing up in a low-income household affects a child’s life chances, leading to poorer health, developmental and educational outcomes.
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