Responding to the National Audit Office (NAO) report on the social care workforce published today (Thursday), UNISON’s assistant general secretary Christina McAnea said: “This damning report exposes the government’s lamentable approach to social care, which is letting down elderly and disabled people, as well as the dedicated staff looking after them. “Years of underfunding mean local councils […]
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Community delegates recognise work of Care Workers for Change campaign in defending care services and organising a fragmented and casualised workforce
The charter also aims to ensure adequate staffing levels and enough time for workers to look after vulnerable people. It […]
Decision comes after a lengthy campaign by UNISON
- Date
- 1 May 2018 8:30pm–10:00pm
- Location
- Saw Swee Hock Student Centre, London School of Economics,1 Sheffield St, London WC2A 2AP
If a society is judged on its ability to care for those who need support, what does it mean to turn caring into profit?
UNISON responds to the Public Accounts Committee report
UNISON has branded 1st Call Home Care a disgrace after finding the Plymouth care firm failing to pay workers a month’s wages. The company, which employs around 100 staff across six care homes in Plymouth, claimed the lack of pay was “a glitch”. Despite promises to deal with the issue by the end of Friday, […]
Care workers in Cornwall who look after people in their own homes are to be given more support to do their work. Cornwall Council has today signed Unison’s Ethical Care Charter which sets out a series of commitments to protect the rights of homecare workers and ensure dignity in care delivery through a consistent, well […]
Some 120 UNISON members in Bath and north east Somerset take action over employers’ ‘work-for-free’ proposals
New report published in run-up to government green paper
UNISON member and care worker Nicole Stanfield Caile went to Parliament recently to put the case for care workers
Strike action on hold pending further talks
And while are on UNISON-led victories staff in East Dunbartonshire recycling and waste services called off their industrial action as significant progress was made in talks with the council and […]
Birmingham council wants to cut the hours – and pay – of its enablement team that works to help vulnerable people stay in their homes
There was no lying on sun-loungers for UNISON or many of our members involved in key struggles at work