UNISON responds to the Public Accounts Committee report
UNISON responds to the Public Accounts Committee report
This event will focus the consequences for care when the most basic human/e pursuit has been turned into a “for profit” activity. What happens […]
Decision comes after a lengthy campaign by UNISON
Announcement comes as part of plans to bring social care and NHS services closer together
It called for the experience and lessons learned from the project to be shared across the union. As Peter […]
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
A “firghtening level of cuts” since 2010 have resulted in “a broken care system, a broken society,” she said. And delegates heard from a service user when Chris Nykiel […]
Care workers say they’re rarely able to stop for a brief chat with the people they’re looking after or take them outside for a breath of fresh […]
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 […]