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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.

Mencap has agreed to pay care workers above the national minimum wage for sleep-ins, following a successful campaign by UNISON. The charity has been in dispute with UNISON over its failure to pay care staff the minimum wage when providing on-call night care. Some carers had previously been paid a flat rate of £25 for a […]

Nearly nine in ten care workers (89 per cent) say a lack of staff is to blame, with more than a quarter (27 per cent) not having the time to help elderly people eat and […]

And delegates heard from a service user when Chris Nykiel of Leeds local government told them: “As a user of services, people who come to my door to help me understand that they will […]

Care workers owed up to six years’ back pay after being paid below the minimum wage will have to wait until October for the money they are owed after a government announcement today

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

Scottish council signs charter committing it to standards for care workers and those they care for

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