Debate contribution: Domiciliary Care: Real Living Wage
Debate contribution by Mr Mike Nesbitt on .
- MLA
- Mr Mike Nesbitt
- Party at the time
- Ulster Unionist Party
- Date
- 2 June 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution (made as a minister)
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Domiciliary Care: Real Living Wage
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5584295
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Text
Yes. I have been clear about my commitment to implement the real living wage across the social care workforce, and I have set that out directly to the key stakeholders. I wrote to trade unions to confirm the pathway to delivering the real living wage through Agenda for Change arrangements from 2026-27. I then wrote to members of the social care fair work forum to reaffirm my commitment to implementing the real living wage for independent-sector adult social care staff from, again, 2026-27, with any uplift to be backdated to 1 April. Taken together, those actions demonstrate a clear intention to deliver the real living wage across the statutory and independent sectors, subject, of course, to the availability of funding and final budget decisions.
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