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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

Cabinet shares responsibility with Boris Johnson for state of the UK

Local government delegates debate motions on social care and the importance of bringing the entire sector back in-house

Social care workers in Suffolk are taking their campaign for fair pay straight to county councillors on Thursday with a rally outside council headquarters. Union UNISON has organised the demonstration to persuade councillors to support a motion recognising the vital work of social care staff. The motion, proposed by Labour’s Sandy Martin, calls on Suffolk […]

Covid spread like wildfire as untested but positive patients were discharged from hospitals.

When UNISON’s community service group held it’s conference in Glasgow last week, pay for social care workers was top of the agenda

No one with Covid should be going in to work

Norfolk care staff are on their way to Parliament today to warn MPs that the care system is “close to collapse.” Care workers’ union UNISON has organised the lobby to push for action following decades of underfunding and a steady erosion of pay and conditions that have been laid bare by the pandemic. The union […]

UNISON has discovered cases of care home employers trapping overseas nurses in exploitative workplaces and charging them thousands of pounds if they try to leave