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‘Social care now needs to be moved to the front of the queue’

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 […]

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

Ministers should stop holding down the pay of care workers, paramedics, hospital porters, nurses and other key workers so […]

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 […]

Only last week ministers could have acted to stop the exodus of porters, healthcare assistants and other NHS staff with an above-inflation wage rise […]

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