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Concern as care staff’s pay and conditions slip

CARE staff employed by voluntary organisations risk joining the most vulnerable in the UK, due to a “hollowing out” of employment conditions in recent years, a Scottish researcher has claimed.

Dr Iain Cunningham, of the Department of Human Resource Management at Strathclyde Business School, said the changes had come as commissioners such as local authorities drove down costs.