East Lancs elderly could be left in financial black hole
Mr Key said his firm will struggle to pay its homecare workers the £7.20-an-hour rate.
EAST Lancashire’s pensioners could be left with no-one to care for them unless urgent action is taken to fill a financial black hole, it was claimed.
Private companies have joined a campaign to highlight the effects of implementing a new National Living Wage.
Andrew Key, managing director of Choice Care, based at Blackburn Enterprise Centre in Furthergate, is one of the signatures of a letter sent to George Osborne, who pushed up what is essentially a new Minimum Wage in last month’s budget.