National Association of Care and Support Workers

The National Association of Care and Support Workers is a professional body for care workers founded in 2016. It has offices on Holborn Viaduct.

Karolina Gerlich is the chief executive. She was born in Poland and came to the UK in 2007. She works as a home care worker.[1]

It campaigns for the interests of care workers.[2] It questions the commissioning arrangements for care, which lead to poor conditions of employment. The association says "We cannot expect care workers to deliver care with respect and dignity if they are not treated that way themselves."[3] It questioned the training implications of changes in the delivery of medicine to care homes.[4]

In July 2019 it started a campaign jointly with Home Care Insight for the compulsory registration of care workers in England, as is the case in the rest of the UK.[5]

Gerlich joined the Care Workers’ Charity as executive director in March 2020. The two organisations announced that they were joining forces to support the care workforce.[6]

References
  1. "I'm a care worker. The £30k immigration rule would decimate the sector". Guardian. 19 December 2018. Retrieved 23 August 2019.
  2. "DBS background checks mean NHS staff 'paying to work'". BBC. 29 March 2019. Retrieved 23 August 2019.
  3. "Union warns private sector care workers three times more likely to be on zero hours". Homecare. 26 April 2019. Retrieved 23 August 2019.
  4. "Boots to switch from monitored dosage systems to patient pack dispensing in care homes". Pharmaceutical Journal. 28 January 2019. Retrieved 23 August 2019.
  5. "Home Care Insight campaign: Petition launched to enforce care worker registration in England". Home Care Insight. 3 July 2019. Retrieved 23 August 2019.
  6. "NACAS and CWC join forces to become 'powerful voice' for care workers". Homecare Insight. 25 March 2020. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
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