Special People was proud to attend the Living Wage Foundation’s 25th Anniversary Living Wage Champion Awards at Church House, Westminster – an evening bringing together employers, campaigners and community leaders to mark 25 years of one of the UK’s most successful movements for fair pay.
We attended as an accredited Living Wage Employer, committed to paying every member of our team at least the London Living Wage. In social care, that commitment carries real weight. Care and support work is demanding, skilled and deeply important, yet it remains some of the lowest-paid work in the country. Choosing to pay the real Living Wage is our way of saying that the people who deliver care should earn a wage they can genuinely live on.
It also matters for the people we support. When care workers are valued and fairly paid, they stay and continuity is one of the things that makes good care good. It means familiar faces, trusting relationships, and a team that knows the people they support well. Fair pay isn’t separate from quality care; it’s part of the foundation of it.
The Living Wage movement began as a small grassroots campaign among low-paid workers in East London and has grown into a national standard for good work. Today, nearly 17,000 employers across the UK choose to pay the real Living Wage, putting fairer pay into the pockets of hundreds of thousands of workers and their families.
We’re proud to stand alongside them, and to keep advocating for the recognition, respect and fair pay that care and support workers deserve.
Good care starts with valuing care workers.
Join a team that values care work
We’re always looking for kind, reliable people to join us as support workers and as an accredited Living Wage Employer, we pay the real London Living Wage for the essential work you do. If you want a role where you’re respected, supported and paid fairly, we’d love to hear from you