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It’s time for change. Social care should become part of a nationally recognised institution, as respected as the NHS

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 […]

"This is a government which promised to fix social care, but ministers seem to have fallen asleep at the wheel […]

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

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 […]

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