Check our campaign briefing for SOS Day on 16 Novembers for ways you can get involved
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Do you use social care services?
Do you use social care services for older people (aged 65 or over) or look after someone who does? UNISON would like to hear about your experience
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UNISON gives evidence on growing social care funding crisis
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.
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Social care services for older people
Where next for UNISON’s Save Our Local Services campaign in 2016?
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‘My mum has Alzheimer’s and I have haemophilia’: why homecare matters
Omar Ramadan has severe haemophilia – a disorder that impairs the body’s ability to control blood clotting – and he cares for his mother who has Alzheimer’s.
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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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The truth about the cuts: the disability support worker
‘The cuts have shattered our enthusiasm’
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The truth about the cuts: the disability support worker
‘The cuts have shattered our enthusiasm’
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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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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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♡ UNISON: the union has empowered me to speak up
Polly Smith is a homecare worker
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♡ UNISON: the union has empowered me to speak up
Polly Smith is a homecare worker
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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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Closure of Four Seasons home
UNISON statement on announcement that Garvagh Care Home will close in May
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‘UNISON means? Confidence, learning and not getting a pay cut’
Careworker Mitsy tells her story
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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…
‘Our members support our communities every day of the year’
Many UNISON members will be keeping the country going over Christmas and the new year
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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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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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