Search tagged social care

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

Most social care in England is commissioned by local government and delivered by private and independent companies […]

Social care now needs to moved to the front of the queue, not shifted to the back. It's time for change. Social care should become part of a nationally recognised institution, as respected as the NHS. It […]

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 […]

Date

1 December 2022 12:00pm–1:00pm

Location

Outside Endeavour House, Russell Road, Ipswich, IP1 2BX

Join UNISON to push Suffolk County Council to: Invest more in recruitment and retention of care staff, Halt the haemorrhaging of staff leaving the care sector, Ensure any underspend is dedicated to raising the level of staff in social care. This protest is part of UNISON Suffolk County’s You Care, We Care campaign. Outcome

The prime minister and the health secretary must make social care a priority.

Pay and proper planning is key to fixing NHS and social care

For too long, the government has ignored pay and staffing.

Thousands of care workers in Wales are facing a double whammy of sky-high bills and the threat of poverty after the latest government decision on sick pay, warns public services union UNISON. Care workers in Wales will not receive any top up to their sick pay if they have to self-isolate from the end of […]

The government’s had years to improve the workforce situation but has done little.

Nothing short of a complete overhaul of the care sector will do.

Whether it’s gender equality, green jobs or a more productive economy – social care should be a central part of a modern industrial strategy, Westminster event hears

Clinging on to power was more important to him than looking after the country. “He leaves a dreadful legacy […]

She suggested that perhaps some long overdue changes would be happening given all that care workers had gone through: “But no. No”. And a major […]