Deep-rooted staffing problems will only begin to be resolved by addressing endemic low pay in the sector.
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UNISON launches its campaign for a National Care Service in England
‘Social care now needs to be moved to the front of the queue’
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Blog: Launching UNISON’s campaign for a National Care Service
It’s time for change. Social care should become part of a nationally recognised institution, as respected as the NHS
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Post-pandemic social care – Hopes and Disappointments
I was speaking at the launch of the report ‘Post-pandemic Hopes and Disappointments’, which looks at post-pandemic social care across Europe. Written by the brilliant Lisa Pelling from the progressive Swedish think tank Arena Idé. This is a follo…Read more…
“We need to outlaw fire and rehire forever”, declares UNISON community conference
The annual conference was held in Bournemouth on Friday 3 and Saturday 4 March
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NHS Reform: It’s Social Care Stupid!
The current NHS crisis has spawned a flurry of proposed reforms to the National Health Service. They range from privatisation to the use of volunteers. However, most miss the point. The underlying problem facing the NHS across the UK is the failu…Read more…
UNISON Labour Link Parliamentary Reception for London Councillors hosted by David Lammy MP
Picture collage from last weeks reception in the Jubilee Room in Westminster Hall. Many, many thanks to Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy MP and his staff for hosting this event and for David giving a passionate speech and Parliamentary report…Read more…
Unless wages rise in social care, the sector’s problems will never be fixed, says UNISON
The prime minister and the health secretary must make social care a priority.
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Solving NHS and care crisis must involve proper workforce plan, says UNISON
Pay and proper planning is key to fixing NHS and social care
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UNISON comments on NHS Confederation’s call for better funding for social care
For too long, the government has ignored pay and staffing.
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Government must take responsibility for the NHS and social care workforce crisis, says UNISON
The government’s had years to improve the workforce situation but has done little.
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Underfunded adult social care will continue to lose staff unless ministers act, says UNISON
Nothing short of a complete overhaul of the care sector will do.
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How to use social care to rebuild the economy
Whether it’s gender equality, green jobs or a more productive economy – social care should be a central part of a modern industrial strategy, Westminster event hears
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Country needs a new government, not just a change of PM
Cabinet shares responsibility with Boris Johnson for state of the UK
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Lessons learned from the pandemic for social care
I was in Stockholm this week speaking at a workshop looking at Europe-wide experiences of the pandemic on social care. The On the corona frontline – Lessons learned, promises broken? event was hosted…Read more…
Conference affirms there should be no profiteering from social care
Local government delegates debate motions on social care and the importance of bringing the entire sector back in-house
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High Court rules that government orders to discharge untested Covid patients into care homes was illegal, says UNISON
Covid spread like wildfire as untested but positive patients were discharged from hospitals.
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Care workers put their lives on the line for £8.72 an hour during COVID
When UNISON’s community service group held it’s conference in Glasgow last week, pay for social care workers was top of the agenda
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Somerset decision risks Covid care home spread, says UNISON
No one with Covid should be going in to work.
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NHS and social care reform ‘doomed’ without staff or funding to deliver, says UNISON
This is yet another government policy without substance.
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