Adult social care is in crisis, but UNISON has a solution – find out how UNISON’s proposal to use a £2.4bn business rate surplus in England would affect funding in your area
Article on the UNISON National
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Health and social care partnership commits to achieving fair work, better pay and improved quality of care on eve of Living Wage Week
Article on the UNISON National
site.
Check our campaign briefing for SOS Day on 16 Novembers for ways you can get involved
Article, News on the UNISON National
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The blame for the social care crisis must be laid at the government’s door: ministers must get tougher with enforcing and more money must be put into care
Blogs, General Secretary's blog on the UNISON National
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Seventeen homecare workers employed across the London Borough of Haringey are taking care company Sevacare and the council to court.
News, Press release on the UNISON National
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The crisis in adult social care is set to worsen due to a growing funding gap, UNISON has told the Communities and Local Government Committee.
Article on the UNISON National
site.
It used to take Judith Montgomery three and a half hours to earn two hours’ pay.
Magazine on the UNISON National
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Failure to honour the minimum wage is endemic across the care sector as many homecare workers are unpaid for the time they travel between home visits – which can be up to a fifth of their working day, says UNISON today (Thursday). The union is urging the government to end the systematic underpayment that it […]
News, Press release on the UNISON National
site.
East Midlands council signs up to quality care and fair pay during National Carers’ Week
Article on the UNISON National
site.
Vitally important care workers are being paid far less than the absolute basic minimum that they should receive: nearly 20 years on from the establishment of a minimum wage in this country, that should be a source of national embarrassment
General Secretary's blog, News on the UNISON National
site.