Budget to give $49.5 million boost for aged care training, but what about wages?
- Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Tuesday’s budget will provide $49.5 million for aged care training for existing workers and people who want to work in the sector.
With aged care beset by a shortage of staff as well as an under-trained workforce the funding, over two years, will be for an additional 15,000 subsidised vocational education and training places.
But the...
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