Citizens UK’s Living Wage for Careworkers Charter
We all relied on the one million careworkers on the frontline of the UK’s fight against the pandemic. Over half of frontline careworkers earn below the voluntary Living Wage of £9.90 an hour (£11.05 in London) and are struggling to keep their heads above water.
As careworkers, care recipients, care commissioners, council leaders, politicians and community leaders, we all agree that no careworker deserves poverty pay. We have applauded careworkers – now is the time to match our applause with a guarantee that they will earn enough to live a decent life.
We call on the UK Government to provide the £1.4 billion in additional funding so that every care sector worker that delivers publicly funded care can be paid at least the voluntary Living Wage.
Signatories of the Charter include:
Rt Revd Paul Butler | Lord Bishop of Durham |
Rt Revd Christine Hardman | Bishop of Newcastle |
Rt Revd John Arnold | RC Bishop of Salford |
Sam Monaghan | Chief Executive of the Methodist Homes Alliance |
AnneMarie Plas | Clap for Carers |
Matthew Bolton | Executive Director, Citizens UK |
Danny Sriskandarajah, | CEO, Oxfam |
Alison Garnham | CEO of Child Poverty Action Group |
Imam Qari Muhammad Asim | Makkah Mosque Leeds |
Tabitha Robert Stephenson-Padron | Care Worker and Cardiff Citizens member Care Home Manager and founder, Penrose Care |
Rt Revd James Newcombe | Lord Bishop of Carlisle |
Averil Pooten Watan | Care Home Manager and Church Warden St Barnabas |
Abid Khan | Cheadle Mosque |
Bishop Tony Parry | New Testament Church of God |
Dr Laurence Bender | Liberal Syngagogue Elstree |
Dr Mohammad Mozaffari | Leeds Muslim Youth Group |
Imam Abdul Basith | Newcastle Central Mosque |
Imam Dr Musharraf Hussein | Karimia Institute |
Jackie Hinchcliffe | Careworker - Woodleigh Catalyst Choices |
Julia Burton-Jones | Diocese of Rochester Dementia Project Officer |
Julia Wysocka | International Community Organisation of Sunderland |
Noel Reyes | Careworker - Leicestershire Philipion Chaplaincy |
Rabbi Aaron Goldstein | Northwood and Pinner Liberal Synagogue |
Rabbi Adam Frankenberg | |
Rabbi Amanda Golby | |
Rabbi Andrea Zanardo | Brigton and Hove Reform |
Rabbi Danny Rich | Liberal Judaism |
Rabbi Debbie Young-Somers | Reform Judaism |
Rabbi Dr Barbara Borts | Darlington Hebrew Congregation |
Rabbi Dr Deborah Kahn-Harris | Leo Baeck College |
Rabbi Dr Jackie Tabick | Liberal Judaism |
Rabbi Elli Sarah | Brighton and Hove Progressive |
Rabbi Fabian Sborovsky | Menorah Synagogue |
Rabbi Gershon Sillins | |
Rabbi Hadassah Davis | Jewish Community of Berkshire, Reading Liberal |
Rabbi Igor Zinkov | Liberal Judaism |
Rabbi Ilit Shillor | Reform Judaism |
Rabbi Janet Darley | Greater London |
Rabbi Jeremy Gordon | New London Synagogue |
Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg | New North London |
Rabbi Keren Yuval | Southgate Progressive Synagogue |
Rabbi Lawrence Becker | Sukkat Shalom Reform |
Rabbi Mark Goldsmith | Edgware and Hendon Reform |
Rabbi Maurice Michaels | Bournmouth Reform |
Rabbi Michael Hilton | Harrow |
Rabbi Miriam Berger | Finchley Reform |
Rabbi Monique Mayer | |
Rabbi Naomi Goldman, | Kol Chai Hatch End Reform Jewish Community |
Rabbi Paul Freedman | Radlett Reform Synagogue |
Rabbi Rachel Benjamin | |
Rabbi Richard Jacobi | |
Rabbi Roberta Harris | Eastbourne Liberal Jewish Community |
Rabbi Roni Tabick | New Stoke Newington Shul |
Rabbi Sandra Kviat | Crouch End Chavurah |
Rabbi Sybil Sheridan | |
Rabbi Sylvia Rothschild | Warwickshire |
Rabbi Warren Elf | Faith Network Manchester |
Rabbi Zahavit Shalev | New North London |
Revd Hugh Nelson | Bishop Designate St German (Truro) |
Robert Stephenson-Padron | Penrose Care Manager |
Rt Revd Alan Wilson | Bishop of Buckingham |
Rt Revd Andrew Watson | Bishop of Guildford |
Rt Revd Colin Fletcher | Bishop of Dorchester |
Rt Revd Dr Alan Smith | Bishop of St Albans |
Rt Revd Dr Emma Ineson | Bishop of Penrith |
Rt Revd Graham Usher | Bishop of Norwich |
Rt Revd Guli Francis Dehqani | Bishop of Loughborough |
Rt Revd John Holbrook | Bishop of Brixworth |
Rt Revd John Perumbalath | Bishop of Bradwell |
Rt Revd John Stroyan | Bishop of Warwick |
Rt Revd Karowei Dorgu | Bishop of Southwark |
Rt Revd Marcus Stock | RC Diocese of Leeds |
Rt Revd Martin Warner | Bishop of Chichester |
Rt Revd Martyn Snow | Bishop of Leicester |
Rt Revd Olivia Graham | Bishop of Reading |
Rt Revd Paul Bayes | Bishop of Liverpool |
Rt Revd Paul Slater | Leeds Area Bishop |
Rt Revd Pete Wilcox | Bishop of Sheffield |
Rt Revd Peter Hill | Acting Bishop of Chelmsford |
Rt Revd Philip Mountstephen | Bishop of Truro |
Rt Revd Richard Atkinson | Bishop of Bedford |
Rt Revd Richard Jackson | Bishop of Hereford |
Rt Revd Rob Wickham | Bishop of Edmonton |
Rt Revd Robert Byrne | RC Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle |
Rt Revd Ruth Worsley | Bishop of Taunton |
Rt Revd Terrence Drainey | RC Bishop of Middlesborough |
Sarah Havard | BetterTogether, Manager |
Revd Kerry Tankard | Chair of Yorkshire West Methodist District |
Revd Canon Dr Ellen Loudon | Liverpool Cathedral |
Revd Tim Boocock | Leeds South and West Methodist |
Andy Smith | Principal of The Djanogly City Academy, Nottingham |
Julia Wysocka | International Community Organisation of Sunderland |
Paul Worley | Sycamore Academy Headteacher |
Revd Angela Hughes | Stainbeck United Reformed Church |
Rev Clare Corley | St John's Wortley and Farnley |
Revd Heston Groenewald | All Hallows Leeds |
Rev John Cavanagh | St David's Pantasaph |