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“Years of underfunding mean local councils can no longer put enough money into care to meet the needs of an ageing population […]

Community delegates recognise work of Care Workers for Change campaign in defending care services and organising a fragmented and casualised workforce

Announcement comes as part of plans to bring social care and NHS services closer together

Decision comes after a lengthy campaign by UNISON

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 […]

Extra shifts are unworkable.” He added that the local council “created Sirona, it pays the firm to provide care services, and it cut Sirona’s funding […]

“Our government and our country must show they care about those who care for our loved ones,” general secretary […]

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

UNISON reacted angrily to the plans to axe more than half of Suffolk’s police community support officers (PCSOs), arguing that it would put public safety at risk. The proposed […]

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

Birmingham care workers are on strike because the council thinks they’re an easy target for cuts