Vitally important care workers are being paid far less than the absolute basic minimum that they should receive. Nearly twenty years on from the establishment of a minimum wage in this country, that…Read more…
Milton Keynes signs up to UNISON ethical care charter
Ethical Care Charter commits council to living wage and not using zero-hours contracts or 15-minute visits, giving dignity to vulnerable people
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‘The real challenges’ of caring
Women share their experience as carers at Brighton conference
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‘The real challenges’ of caring
Women share their experience as carers at Brighton conference
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Homecare in the UK is being destroyed by the government’s local government spending cuts
It’s impossible to read these stories and not wish for a proper solution to our care crisis – and that will require money and political will to achieve
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Time to care: Homecare workers speak out
Can you imagine having to have someone else help you brush your teeth? How about to get you out of bed, or even to wash you? What if it was a stranger each time? Over half a million adults in the UK…Read more…
Two closure-threatened NI care homes bought
Northern Ireland regional secretary Patricia McKeown says announcement that two of seven Four Seasons homes have beeb bought by local companies comes as a source of relief to the residents and the…Read more…
South West care company signs Ethical Care Charter
Cornish care company Cormac has signed up to UNISON’s Ethical Care Charter, the first in the South West to do so
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Staff and residents lobby Northern Ireland Assembly in bid to save residential care homes
‘We cannot afford to walk away from the care needs of our elders – and nor can our politicians’
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2,500 sign Wolverhampton care home petition
Petition launched by UNISON as homes are threatened with closure
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Gita’s story
Gita Paul was born in Lithuania and came to the UK in 2005 as a 20-year-old looking for work.
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Life as a Home Carer in Modern Britain
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Home care workers. Caring, professional and treated like shit
My Dad, who died 18 months back, had home care help in the last years of his illness. My Mum moved mountains to keep him at home, where he needed to be, but what she achieved simply wouldn’t have…Read more…
No Living Wage for homecare workers?
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