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Higher pay needed to boost workforce

What’s needed is the proper reform that can only come from a national care service.” Notes to editors: – UNISON is the UK’s […]

Ministers know this, yet don't seem to care. "A national care service, with a new fair pay agreement, and a real commitment to turn the sector around is what's needed to […]

A care company fully owned by Norfolk County Council wants to shortchange its staff by over £500, UNISON said today. Arm-length firm Independence Matters is refusing to pass on the full nationally agreed local government pay rise for the first time since it was set up in 2013, says the union. The company provides support […]

Care staff in Swansea are being urged to share stories of working through the pandemic for the UK Covid inquiry by public services union UNISON.

Labour has promised a national care service and crucially, a fair pay agreement in care.  “Raising wages in this way won't solve all the […]

But it shouldn't be like this. "Only a national care service and a fair pay agreement for staff can start to turn things around. But that's not a five-minute […]

But instead, the inept approach to the awarding of care visas has given dodgy employers total freedom to exploit overseas staff at whim. “Thankfully […]

Thousands of care staff in Wales will see their pay and working conditions improved thanks to a major step forward by unions including UNISON.

Hundreds of care workers should see their pay and conditions improve after their employer agreed to recognise UNISON, the union said today (Wednesday)

"It's a move the public will more than welcome too. People want a quality, national care service and this will be the first step on the road towards achieving that." Notes to editors: - UNISON […]

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“Creating a national care service is the best way to overhaul a system on its knees that is failing the most vulnerable people in […]

"This latest foolish idea shows ministers are clueless about how to fix care. It's yet another desperate attempt to distract voters from years of government failure and […]