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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

Ministers must stop being complicit in allowing this abuse to happen. “The government needs to reform immigration […]

Ministers must stop being complicit in allowing this abuse to happen. "The government needs to reform immigration […]

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.

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. 

UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea said: “The government must stop unscrupulous care employers from luring overseas workers under false pretences, only to then […]

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

"To make matters worse the sector is thousands of staff short. Raising pay is key to stopping the exodus of staff quitting for higher wages and less stressful, emotionally draining jobs […]

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