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Huge vacancy rates across care sector adding to staff mental health crisis

The government’s failure to deal with ​the growing staffing ​crisis in social care ​risks worsening the mounting mental health toll on workers, says UNISON

Press release on the UNISON National site.

Government has no plan for social care, says UNISON

Christina McAnea says £5.3bn promised comes nowhere near what’s needed

News, Press release on the UNISON National site.

New social care levy shows government priorities are all wrong, says UNISON       

Christina McAnea says government wrong to focus on funding before reform

News, Press release on the UNISON National site.

UNISON urges councils to ensure care staff are properly paid

Call comes after the government ‘names and shames’ companies in England and Wales for flouting minimum wage legislation

Article, News on the UNISON National site.

Compulsory jabs guidance is confusing and risks driving staff away, says UNISON        

Donna Rowe-Merriman says measure will do more harm than good

News, Press release on the UNISON National site.

Latest delay on social care reform could push staff over the edge, says UNISON            

Christina McAnea says Boris Johnson hasn’t delivered nearly two years on from pledge

News, Press release on the UNISON National site.

Social care needs a radical overhaul urgently to value the vulnerable and staff

Christina McAnea responds to Public Accounts Committee report

News, Press release on the UNISON National site.

Care employers still not giving sick pay to Covid-hit staff, says UNISON survey          

Christina McAnea says government must reform sector and ensure employers guarantee full pay

News, Press release on the UNISON National site.

Care staff more likely to decline jab if threatened by employers, says UNISON survey        

Gavin Edwards says forced vaccination could make recruitment and retention crisis worse

News, Press release on the UNISON National site.

Levelling up won’t mean anything without decent public services

Much-needed reforms missing from parliamentary agenda

News, Press release on the UNISON National site.

Radical reform not empty words needed on social care

Plan to fix care is needed right now

News, Press release on the UNISON National site.

Government must deliver after years of broken pledges to reform social care, says UNISON    

Gavin Edwards says social care should be equal in excellence to the NHS

Press release on the UNISON National site.

Government must act over minimum wage laws affecting care workers, say UNISON and Mencap 

UNISON and Mencap write to Boris Johnson urging investigation into sleep-in pay

Article on the UNISON National site.

Essex care workers seek living wage commitment from council candidates

Care workers will make the case for a real living wage direct to Essex County Council candidates today as part of an online Citizens Assembly. They are joining more than 100 community leaders seeking a number of commitments from candidates, including making the council an accredited Living Wage organisation, and ensuring all care contracts in […]

News, Press release on the UNISON Eastern site.

Persuasion not coercion must be the key to drive vaccine take-up, says UNISON

Mandatory jabs are the wrong approach and a massive distraction.

News, Press release on the UNISON National site.