Search News and Blogs tagged social care

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

A properly funded social care system should be the backbone of a thriving economy.  

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.

After four months of collective action, support workers received £780 back pay alongside the pay increase

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

‘Social care now needs to be moved to the front of the queue’

It’s time for change. Social care should become part of a nationally recognised institution, as respected as the NHS

The annual conference was held in Bournemouth on Friday 3 and Saturday 4 March

Suffolk care workers and their supporters will protest outside Thursday’s full council meeting demanding more is done to support social care. The union is ringing the alarm bell about the numbers of staff leaving the sector. A Skills for Care report last month showed that staff turnover rates for social care in England were at […]