Learning disability care faces disaster over back pay bill | Martin Green

Care providers hope an upcoming court hearing will provide clarity and guidance on pay for sleep-in shiftsThousands of people with learning disabilities and other needs depend on support provided via a care worker sleeping overnight, but these services are under threat because of a huge back pay bill.Social care faces a funding gap that has been described by the Care Quality Commission as pushing provision to a “tipping point”; we cannot afford continuing uncertainty around how to fu