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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

Skills for Care estimates that there will be an extra 490,000 jobs in social care by 2035 but vacancy rates […]

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

Councils in the East Midlands must ensure funding to tackle workforce shortages in social care reaches staff pay packets, says UNISON. The union has written to 1,750 councillors in the region urging them to ensure that ​local care workers receive their share of millions of pounds ​of short-term funding pledged by the government. Care staff […]

Hundreds of postcards from Essex residents demanding better treatment for care workers will be handed over to county council leaders today. The postcards, collected by care workers’ union UNISON during town centre stalls, call on Essex County Council social care supremo John Spence to properly fund social care so that providers can pay staff a […]

This is yet another government policy without substance.

The campaign for justice for care workers is one of UNISON’s top priorities, general secretary Christina McAnea told a Suffolk County branch public meeting on Monday evening. She was speaking alongside Kezia Pugh of the Living Wage Foundation, Labour Councillor Sandy Martin and frontline care workers Jacqui, Ewan and Amanda as part of the You […]

These ill-thought-out rules have worsened the staffing crisis hampering the NHS and social care and caused significant upset.

It’s nothing short of a tragedy that huge amounts of time and resources have been wasted.

These ill-thought-out rules have worsened the staffing crisis hampering the NHS and social care and caused significant upset. 

UNISON’s general secretary on a ‘challenging and demanding year’ as the union continued to navigate the pandemic – and her goals moving forward

Dozens of elderly people, including those with dementia, face a distressing Christmas over Derbyshire County Council’s proposals to close seven care homes. UNISON members were outside County Hall in Matlock yesterday (Monday 6 December) opposing plans that will see around 70 residents having to find alternative accommodation. The union, which represents carers who will be […]

Government has not delivered bold, ambitious plan that is needed

Care workers are preparing to march through Ipswich this month as they push for a real living wage and proper sick pay. The 27 November march and rally, organised by UNISON Suffolk County branch, will highlight the incredible contribution care workers made during the pandemic, says UNISON. Care staff continued caring for Suffolk’s most vulnerable […]