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will provide an incentive to the best of our existing staff to remain in
the service.
2) More favourable rates of pay to all grades of home helps to bring their
remuneration on a par with comparable posts in industry. In particular,
the salary of the Family Helps has been considerably raised in
recognition of the particularly arduous nature of their duties.
3) The formation of a Mobile Home Help Unit. This is to be staffed by a
male home help/driver and a team of home helps equipped with modern
cleaning apparatus. This will allow them to visit a large number of
premises for short periods for intensive cleaning.
4) Arrangements are to be made to overcome the recruiting problem by
bringing home helps from areas where they can be most easily recruited
to areas where they are particularly needed. It has always been one of
the difficulties that the need has been greatest in those areas where
recruitment is most difficult. Inadequacies of public transport in the
Borough have prevented the use of the services of many women who would
otherwise be prepared to be home helps. It is hoped that by providing our
own transport we will overcome this difficulty.
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