More than 100 care workers picketed the offices of a profit-hungry privateer in Yorkshire yesterday as they launched their second week of strike action.
The Doncaster carers and nurses, on strike over vicious pay cuts and an attack on their holidays and sick pay, hit back against Essex firm Care UK.
Until 2013 staff were employed by the NHS on contract to Doncaster Council to provide support for people with learning difficulties and mental health problems, enabling them to maintain an independent life in their own homes.
In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
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