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Date

23 September 2023 10:30am–4:00pm

Location

UNISON Centre, 130 Euston Road, London, NW1 2AY

UNISON is holding a Social Work Seminar on Saturday 23rd September 2023 in UNISON Centre London.

Social workers and occupational therapists working for South Gloucestershire Council are back on strike.

Social workers and occupational therapists working for South Gloucestershire Council are to strike from today (Tuesday). 

Staff say “market forces” supplement should be applied across the board

Earlier this year, UNISON’s social worker members were invited to take part in a regional survey to find your priorities and to build up a picture of what life is really like for social workers on the front line. Thank you to all our members who took part. We also undertook research of regional employers […]

Significant changes needed to give proper support instead of ‘firefighting’

Career development and pay proposals must be properly funded

UNISON encourages social workers to complete a short survey to feed back on the government’s positions, before 6 May

Nominations close at midnight on Friday 23 July

Local government workers facing coronavirus risks and pressures

The union has been working with Social Work England on its development, but stresses that UNISON itself provides specialist representation for social workers

Nominations close at midnight on Friday 19 July

Have your say on changes to social work registration

“Children and family social work has always been a challenging and busy field, however after 20 years I feel I can say that I have never seen things this bad.”

Labour’s shadow minister for children and families talks about the problems facing social workers