Announcement comes as part of plans to bring social care and NHS services closer together
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Community delegates recognise work of Care Workers for Change campaign in defending care services and organising a fragmented and casualised workforce
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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...
UNISON sets out priorities at successful first national social care seminar
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North-East council becomes the latest to commit itself to UNISON's Ethical Care Charter
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“Social care workers provide a lifeline service for vulnerable people,” UNISON branch secretary Lorraine Thomson said this week as she welcomed Stirling Council in Scotland signing up to the...
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
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Conference pledges to campaign on funding crisis and step up action to organise workers
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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,...
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...