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…Read more…
Nottingham signs up to UNISON’s Ethical Care Charter
East Midlands council signs up to quality care and fair pay during National Carers’ Week
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Care workers continue to be denied the minimum wage
MPs praise UNISON’s campaign to support care workers who are ‘illegally’ under-paid
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UNISON calls for action to end the homecare wages scandal
Tens of thousands of care workers across England and Wales are still being paid less than the minimum wage because councils are not insisting that homecare companies pay staff their travel time, a…Read more…
Help stop the illegal underpayment of homecare workers
UNISON is asking members to lobby their MPs ahead of crucial debate
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The truth about the cuts
UNISON members describe how cuts to services are affecting both themselves and the people in their care
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The truth about the cuts: the homecare worker
UNISON members reveal how cuts in services affect both them and the people in their care
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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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Homecare in crisis
Three quarters of councils continue to insist on 15-minute homecare visits for elderly and disabled people, UNISON reveals
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Councils still insisting on 15 minute homecare visits
UNISON has revealed today that 74% of local authorities in England are still limiting homecare visits for their elderly, ill and disabled residents to just 15 minutes.
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Three quarters of councils still insisting on 15 minute homecare visits for elderly and disabled people, reveals UNISON report
Three quarters (74 per cent) of local authorities in England are still limiting homecare visits for their elderly, ill and disabled residents to just 15 minutes, says UNISON in a report published…Read more…
When the cared for becomes the carer
Graeme Ellis’s experience of homecare made him determined to improve the lives of others in his situation
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Latest council signs up to Ethical Care Charter
Cheshire West and Chester is latest local authority to sign up to better care and better conditions for care workers
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