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Announcement comes as part of plans to bring social care and NHS services closer together

Community delegates recognise work of Care Workers for Change campaign in defending care services and organising a fragmented and casualised workforce

Responding to the National Audit Office (NAO) report on the social care workforce published today (Thursday), UNISON’s assistant general secretary Christina McAnea said: “This damning report exposes the government’s lamentable approach to social care, which is letting down elderly and disabled people, as well as the dedicated staff looking after them. “Years of underfunding mean local councils […]

UNISON sets out priorities at successful first national social care seminar

North-East council becomes the latest to commit itself to UNISON’s Ethical Care Charter

Scottish council signs charter committing it to standards for care workers and those they care for

Yorkshire council becomes the largest local authority to sign UNISON’s charter

Government move a ‘cruel blow’ to carers denied the minimum wage for sleep-ins

Care workers owed up to six years’ back pay after being paid below the minimum wage will have to wait until October for the money they are owed after a government announcement today

Conference pledges to campaign on funding crisis and step up action to organise workers

Elderly and vulnerable people in residential care homes are being left in re-used continence pads, denied trips to the toilet and kept indoors for days on end because of severe staff shortages, according to a survey published today (Sunday) by UNISON. The vast majority (83 per cent) of care workers say they are so rushed […]

Mencap has agreed to pay care workers above the national minimum wage for sleep-ins, following a successful campaign by UNISON. The charity has been in dispute with UNISON over its failure to pay care staff the minimum wage when providing on-call night care. Some carers had previously been paid a flat rate of £25 for a […]

Their proposals threaten a further demolition of the welfare state, which will leave all but the very poorest forced to cough up for their care.

UNISON Cymru/Wales writes to all country’s councils on International Women’s Day

All local authorities in England should be allowed to keep a greater share than they do currently of business rates so they can afford to fund social care properly, says UNISON today (Wednesday). The union is urging the government to grant councils better terms along similar lines to a deal agreed earlier this month with […]