Responding to a TUC study showing child poverty is increasing in key-worker households, RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said:
“The reason that some children of nursing staff are living in poverty is because their parents aren’t paid enough.
“After a decade of real-terms pay cuts, including the government’s latest, disgraceful award, nursing staff are choosing between putting food on the table and filling their cars.
“With soaring inflation set to make the cost-of-living crisis even worse, the terrible hardship nursing staff are enduring shows no sign of easing.
“Ministers have turned a deaf ear to their plight, and the workforce crisis is putting patients at risk, leaving them with no choice but to consider industrial strike action.”
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