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UNISON will continue to campaign for vital local services to be properly funded after successful day of action focused on social care raised awareness with MPs

Responding to TUC analysis published today (Tuesday) UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis said: “Homecare workers are under severe pressure to provide top-notch – and often intimate – care, while building vital personal relationships with the people they care for. “But with many on zero-hours contracts, it makes it a lot likelier they won’t be regularly caring for the […]

Research reveals the pressure on councils

All local authorities in England should be allowed to keep a greater share than they do currently of business rates so they can afford to fund social care properly, says UNISON today (Wednesday). The union is urging the government to grant councils better terms along similar lines to a deal agreed earlier this month with […]

UNISON Cymru/Wales writes to all country’s councils on International Women’s Day

Their proposals threaten a further demolition of the welfare state, which will leave all but the very poorest forced to cough up for their care

The changes follow representation by UNISON on behalf of Mencap staff in January 2017. UNISON general […]

“Significant change needs to happen if respect and dignity are to be restored and standards improved in care homes […]

Conference pledges to campaign on funding crisis and step up action to organise workers

Following the rulings, some 200 organisations employing carers – some of which are charities – were liable to pay up to six years back pay […]

Government move a ‘cruel blow’ to carers denied the minimum wage for sleep-ins

Yorkshire council becomes the largest local authority to sign UNISON’s charter

And where an individual’s care needs change, the council promised, the appropriate adjustments will be made. “The workforce deserves fair […]

North-East council becomes the latest to commit itself to UNISON’s Ethical Care Charter

UNISON sets out priorities at successful first national social care seminar