Please find below a compilation of some of the online and distance training available from the Open University’s OpenLearn platform. These will be particularly useful to social care staff who are currently in support roles. Training and development is a great way to keep your brain active and build up your own self-worth and esteem. […]
Please find below a compilation of some of the on-line and distance training to enable you to gain skills and knowledge in the area of general care, mental health and wellbeing. Training and development is a great way to keep your brain active and build up your own self-worth and esteem. It can help you […]
It’s important that people working in social care have the right skills and knowledge to provide high quality care and support. With that in mind we have put together some information showing some of the different learning opportunities available to you as a UNISON member. Is working in social care for you? If you are […]
Overwhelming public support for social care worker wage rise
Christina McAnea says immediate emergency support fund needed to guarantee wage boost for workers
Sarudzai Irene Dzvairo recounts her life story, from growing up in Zimbabwe to moving to the UK and working in social care
Christina McAnea says pandemic has highlighted need for urgent reform
To mark Black History Month, we invited one of our reps in Hertfordshire to say a few words about what it means to be Black in the UK today. My name is Rita Sarpong. I am a Black lady who was born in Ghana on June 1978. I traveled to the UK in 2003 to pursue my […]
Boris Johnson promised a lifeline to low-paid workers then callously pulled it away
Boris Johnson promised a lifeline to low-paid workers then callously pulled it away
‘The best of trade union empowerment’. UNISON branch officers, lawyers and members recall a four-year battle to win pay justice
The sector needs to be properly funded and wages increased
Please find below a compilation of some of the on-line and distance training available to enable you to continue to develop in terms of your work, your personal skills. Training and development is a great way to keep your brain active and your spirits up and the courses we have compiled for you will stand […]
UNISON’s general secretary calls today’s public service workers the ‘new giants’ of the labour movement
Online event will take the place of cancelled conference and will be centred around social care and the need for a national care service
