Stress for workers and less care for service users

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The FOA public service unions has used official figures to show that home care workers are spending less time with their clients. The overall figures show a fall from 53.2% of workers’ time spent caring in 2007 compared to 51.7% but this relatively small decline hides some significant changes at local level with some areas showing declines of 20% or more in contact time. This is not just a loss for the client but means that workers are under pressure to deal with all their paperwork while still trying to deliver their core tasks.
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