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Hundreds of teaching assistants say they don’t have adequate training to deliver the Curriculum for Wales, says their union UNISON today (Thursday).

As part of our activities for UNISON 2023 Year of Black Workers, we have created this new bespoke programme of training for Black members.

Government apprenticeship levy scheme is failing the health service

Update (December 2020) The team from the Marchmont Observatory has produced a further report exploring the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on public sector skills needs. It explores two of the areas highlighted in the previous findings, digital skills and management and supervisory skills, as well as looking at the wider effects of the pandemic […]

This Thursday, UNISON will release the detailed findings of a significant new piece of research into the learning needs, the hopes and fears of workers in the public services. The University of Exeter’s Marchmont Observatory carried out the research on behalf of UNISON, with a survey sent to members over the winter of 2018/19. Over 38,000 […]

Sustained funding required – not just short-term fixes

Conference hears how young workers are often denied training because of austerity, yet this will mean a skills shortage in the future

Much more needs to be done to improve the social care sector and restore the dignity that’s lacking

Healthcare assistants (HCAs) are being expected to do the work of nurses without adequate training or proper supervision, according to survey results published today (Wednesday) by UNISON. Nearly two thirds (63%) say they are being left to care for patients without enough support from doctors and nurses. The impact is that almost two in five […]

The government careers strategy is a missed opportunity to pull together an effective and coherent careers service.

It’s a new year, why not try one of UNISON’s courses for a new you?

Activists can apply for substantial financial help for trade union and labour studies and women’s studies courses

New training will help further pioneering work on mental health in the workplace

UNISON urges remaining Welsh councils to follow suit and back their school support staff

National Skills Academy for Health director Candace Miller explains how it supports and celebrates healthcare support workers