Search Results for “Local government” tagged homecare

In its submission to the Kingsmill Review, UNISON has called for our Ethical Care Charter to be promoted to all local authorities as a way of improving the provision of care

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

Reading Borough Council has pledged commitment to employment conditions and care standards by becoming the latest local authority to sign up to UNISON’s Ethical Care Charter this week

The Ethical Care Charter lists the standards we want local authorities to adhere to when they come to commission homecare services in the future

Perhaps not surprisingly, only 3 per cent said they felt that the government was acting in their interests. The results of the poll - part of UNISON's Essential Cover […]

The same could apply to UNISON.  "We know the Bill is a cynical attempt to stop those who have complaints about the coalition government and their policies from being able to […]

UNISON members employed by Cornerstone Community Care in the West of Scotland are being balloted on industrial action following proposals to cut 155 support workers jobs

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

Seventeen homecare workers employed across the London Borough of Haringey are taking care company Sevacare and the council to court

Cuts to local government spending have meant a reduction in older people receiving homecare, a fall in the number of day […]

They seek to divide public and private sector, employed and unemployed and disabled people from the rest of society, Merv Butler tells Labour conference

It's time to put a stop to the current scandal. It's time to care." UNISON's Ethical Care Charter Key issue: homecare […]

Campaigning homecare members will ‘will leave a legacy’ of better terms and conditions and better home care

UNISON launches campaign to raise standards in homecare

HMRC found that a staggering 48% of care companies targeted in a special investigation were guilty of not paying workers the national minimum wage. In […]