CHILDREN'S social care staff in Glasgow are to get a pay rise to a minimum of £12 per hour backdated from April 8.
Workers benefiting from the wage changes include those working in secure accommodation services, care home services and housing support services among others.
Adult social care staff got an uplift earlier in the year, the Glasgow City Integration Joint Board (IJB) health meeting heard yesterday.
IJB member Anne-Marie Monaghan said: “I think this is a welcome increase. “We have had an unfortunate anomaly between children services and adult services in the hourly rate of pay for a while now.
"It is particularly challenging when you have young people in transition who are moving from children’s services to adult services and trying to keep the same group of staff around them.
“In practice, this will make a big difference. It means staff are more likely to stay with youngsters because of the rate of pay.”
The Scottish Government has made £3.097 million available to Glasgow to pay suppliers to roll out the increase.
An IJB report said: “The delivery of good health and social care outcomes is dependent on the quality of care delivered by providers with whom we contract.
"This offer improves conditions for staff and organisations and should contribute to improved health and well-being outcomes for staff and service users.”
The wage increase will go to eligible children’s social care workers in private, voluntary and independent sectors.
The IJB agreed to offer a “10.09 per cent uplift to an agreed percentage of full contract values in line with typical full workforce costs, to providers of children’s social care.”
The increase is also being rolled across the whole of Scotland.
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