Project Outputs
Submissions
Fair Work Australia: Aged Care Work Value Case 2020-2022
Charlesworth S, 2021, Expert Witness Statement, Fair Work Commission (FWC), Matter No: AM2021/65 Application to Vary the Social, Community, Home Care and Disability Services Industry Award, 22 October 2021.
Charlesworth S, 2021 Expert Witness Statement, Fair Work Commission (FWC), Matter No: AM2020/99 Application to Vary or Revoke the Aged Care Award 2010, 31 March 2021.
Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality & Safety
In October 2019 DWGC Chief Investigator Professor Sara Charlesworth provided oral expert evidence to Australia’s Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality & Safety. In addition, the study findings were communicated through an initial briefing with policy and legal staff assisting the Commission, three written submissions and a separate team presentation to members of the team supporting Counsel Assisting.
Charlesworth S, 2019, Expert Witness Report, Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety at the hearing with the oral examination on this report here
Charlesworth S, Baines D, King D, Cunningham I, Daly T, and Taylor W, 2020, DWGC Submission on workforce issues, Royal Commission here
Charlesworth S, and Taylor W, 2020 Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, Submission on workforce issues, here
Charlesworth S, Baines D, King D, Cunningham I, Daly T, and Taylor W, 2020, Decent Work Good Care team presentation to representatives of the counsel assisting’s staff, May 2020 here
Aged Care Data National Consultation, AIHW (2022)
Charlesworth S, 2022 Submission in response to the ‘Exploring future data & information needs for aged care: issues paper here
The Senate Select Committee on Job Security (2021-2022)
McDonald P, Marston G, Hardy T, Charlesworth S, Mayes R, & Williams P, 2021, Submission 112 here
The Senate Select Committee on Job Security 2021, ‘Second Interim Report: Insecurity in publicly-funded jobs’, Oct 2021, (It contains 16 references to Sara Charlesworth’s submission) here
The Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs, ‘Future of Australia’s Aged Care Workforce (2016-2017): Final Report’, citing evidence from Sara Charlesworth’s evidence to the Committee here
DWGC Promising Policies & Promising Practices
- Promising Policy One: Payment for home support worker travel between clients
- Promising Policy Two: Alliance contracts in home & community support for older people
- Promising Policy Three: Pay equity and a career structure for aged care workers
- Promising Policy Four: Scottish Care Inspectorate standards & inspection process
- Promising Practice One: Home care worker supports: Paid monthly meetings
- Promising Practice Two: Peer mentors for home care workers
- Promising Practice Three: Individualised recreation in residential care
Forthcoming: Policy Brief on supervision in frontline aged care
Selected presentations
2021
Charlesworth S, ‘Ageing Futures: quality care and decent work’, RMIT Distinguished Lectures Series, November 2021, RMIT Professorial Academy
Charlesworth S, Daly T, Cunningham I, Baines D, and Taylor W, 2021, ‘Above and Beyond: Gendered Austerity and Comparative Wage Theft in Aged Care Work’, Responding to ‘Wage Theft’: Description, explanation & policy’, 2021 AIRAANZ Symposium
Daly T, Charlesworth S, Cunningham I, King D, Baines D, and Taylor W. 2021 ‘Above & Beyond: Gendered Austerity & Comparative Wage Theft in Long Term Care Work’, 2021 Sustainable Care Conference
2020
Charlesworth S, ‘Homecare Work: Time autonomy and time to care’, NARI seminars in Ageing, August 2020
2019
Baines D, & Dulhunty A, ‘Relationship-based Care, Austerity & Aged Care’, 2019 Global Care Summit, Toronto
Charlesworth S, & Taylor W, ‘Decent Work Good Care: Identifying conducive policy & regulation in aged care systems’,2018 AIIRAANZ Conference, Adelaide
Charlesworth S, ‘Keeping Well: Supporting the Care Workforce’, Presentation to Scottish Care, Glascow, 2019
Charlesworth S, & Taylor W, ‘Homecare Work in the Antipodes: Time autonomy & time for care’, 2019 Global Carework Summit, Toronto
Charlesworth S, ‘Home care Work in Australia& New Zealand: Time autonomy and time to Care’, Personal Social Services Research Unit, University of Kent, 18 November, 2019
Charlesworth S, ‘Keeping Well: Supporting the Care Workforce’, Symposium, keynote
Presentation on the Decent Work Good Care Study, Scottish Care, Glasgow, 25 September 2019
Charlesworth S, ‘The Problem of Social Care’, keynote presentation, Symposium on the Centenary of the International Labour Organisation: Democracy, Labour Law and the Role of Trade Unions, University of Melbourne, 18 July 2019
Daly T, ‘Decent/Good Care: International approaches to aged care, ‘Temporal tensions in Care work’, 2019 Global Carework Summit, Toronto, York University, Abstract
Daly T, ‘Countdown: Temporality and the construction of care work’, Paid care work: employment, regulation & job quality, 2019 AIRAANZ Conference, Melbourne 2019
2018
Charlesworth S, ‘Who Cares? Who pays?’ Future Social Services Institute, RMIT, May 10 May 2018.
2017
Charlesworth S, ‘Improving Job quality in Australian Aged Care: Challenges and Dilemmas’, invited address, YU-CARE Critical Engagement in Aging Speaker Series, York University, Toronto, 10 September 2017
Charlesworth S, ‘Precarity in the Aged Care Workforce’, keynote address, Health Services Union National Council, Melbourne, 5 October 2017
Charlesworth S, Quality Jobs Support Quality of Life for Older People’, invited presentation, Australian Aged Care Quality Agency: Better Practice 2017 Conference, Melbourne, June 2017
Charlesworth S, ‘Quality Jobs = Quality Care’, invited address, National Aged Care Alliance, Melbourne, 22 May 2017
Reports
Charlesworth S, Macdonald, F. and Clarke, J. 2020, ‘Scoping Study on Gender-Based Violence in Individualised Support and Care Services in Victoria’, Melbourne: Worksafe Victoria
Meagher G, Cortis N, Charlesworth S, & Taylor W, 2019 ‘Meeting the social and emotional needs of older people using aged care services’, Macquarie University, UNSW, RMIT
Hayes L, Charlesworth S, and McCann D, 2018, ‘Violence and Harassment in the Care Economy: A Global Research Agenda’, Durham University
Journal articles
Hussein S, & Charlesworth ,. 2022, Editorial, ‘Policies and Practices Shaping Long-term Care: Between an Inclusivity Ethos and Service Delivery Realities’, Social Policy and Society
Charlesworth S & Malone J, 2022, ‘The Production of employment conditions for migrant care workers: Cross national perspectives’, Social Policy and Society, First View , pp. 1 – 14, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474746422000100
Baines D, Dulhunty A, & Charlesworth S, 2021, ‘Relationship-based care work, austerity and aged care’, Work, Employment and Society, Vol 36, Issue 1, 139-155 here
Charlesworth S and Isherwood L, 2021, ‘Migrant Aged Care Workers in Australia: Do They Have Poorer Quality Jobs than their Locally Born Counterparts?’, Ageing & Society 41(12), pp 2702–2722
Macdonald F and Charlesworth S, 2021, ‘Regulating for Gender-Equitable Decent Work in Social and Community Services: Bringing the State Back In’, Journal of Industrial Relations 63(4), pp 477–500
Charlesworth S and Heap L, 2020, ‘Redressing Gendered Undervaluation in New Zealand Aged Care: Institutions, Activism and Coalitions’, Journal of industrial Relations 6(2), pp 608–629
Charlesworth S and Howe J, 2018, ‘The Enforcement of Employment Standards in Australia: Successes and Challenges in Aged Care’, International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations 34(2), pp 1–30
Baines D, Charlesworth S, Daly T and Williamson S, (eds) (2017) ‘The Work of Care: Tensions, Contradictions and Promising Practices’, Labour & Industry 34(3), pp 257–260
Charlesworth S and Malone J, 2017, ‘Re-imagining Decent Work for Home Care Workers in Australia’, Labour & Industry 27(4), pp 284–301
Charlesworth S, 2017, ‘Partial Protection? The Regulation of Home Care Workers’ Working Conditions’, in C Fenwick and V Gotherm (eds), Regulating for Equitable and Job-Rich Growth, UK: Edward Elgar, pp 125–150
Blogs
Charlesworth S and Malone, J ‘Does migration create additional employment disadvantage for migrant care workers?, The Social Policy Blog
Taylor, W, ‘Will aged care workers finally get the better pay and conditions they deserve?’, Centre for people Organisation & Work, Nov 2020
Media
- Sara Charlesworth (RMIT) and Elizabeth Hill (University of Sydney) argue ‘Labor’s pledge to properly pay women and care workers is a start, but it won’t be easy’, The Conversation, May 16, 2022
- Sara Charlesworth discusses working conditions for home care workers supporting older Australians with Geraldine Doogue on RN Saturday Extra, Sat 8 August 2020
- Charlesworth S et al (2018) video: Violence and Harassment in the Care Economy – part of the ‘Unacceptable Forms of Work: Global Dialogue /Local Innovation’ project, led by Durham University, https://www.dur.ac.uk/law/policyengagement/ufw/challenges/careeconomy/