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What’s needed is a national care service that’s adequately funded, with proper standards and fair pay for its workforce.

The crisis at a Cambridgeshire care company shows why the government must drop plans to cap overseas care staff numbers and act to stop employers exploiting those already working in the UK, says UNISON today. The union says proposals reportedly being drawn up by immigration minister Robert Jenrick to curb migration would be disastrous for […]

The care system would implode without migrant care staff.

Instead of seeking solutions to serious problems, ministers are demonising migrant workers and seeking scapegoats

Council leaders in Cardiff and Swansea will be among guests told about billions being extracted from the care system.

The analysis warns that the government’s levelling up agenda and other measures to transform the UK cannot be achieved without substantial new investment in social care. Carenomics uses […]

Change needed after 13 years of declining living standards and harm to public services

Without a long-term plan to solve care’s staffing crisis, the sector will remain many thousands of employees short. 

Migrant staff deserve nothing but respect and dignity for coming to look after those who need care the most. 

The Conservatives had been in power for ten years when Covid struck.

Ministers must take responsibility and pledge to deliver a well-funded national care service with nationwide pay scales.

“Insourcing, insourcing, insourcing is the solution to market failure”, delegates hear

A national care service would boost wages, put quality above profit-making and ensure everyone receives the support they need.

However, months went by and carers working for Integra Community Living Options did not see any extra money in their pay packets. Union members […]

Deep-rooted staffing problems will only begin to be resolved by addressing endemic low pay in the sector