Search Results for “Pay and conditions” tagged health and social care

The charity has been in dispute with UNISON over its failure to pay care staff the minimum wage when providing on-call night care. Some carers had previously been […]

It lays bare the damaging effect on patients and staff. “Health bosses clearly know services can no longer rely on goodwill to stay afloat […]

The government made last minute amendments to the Health and Care Bill this week – changes that will hit the poorest the hardest. Here’s all you need to know and where things are at the moment

"There are a lot of gender assumptions behind that. In reality, care work is highly important and skilled work. "We need to focus urgent attention on who is delivering social care, and why the […]

UNISON member and care worker Nicole Stanfield Caile went to Parliament recently to put the case for care workers

“Our government and our country must show they care about those who care for our loved ones,” he added. Care is […]

The details of nearly all 44 NHS sustainability and transformation plans (STPs) have now been published. But the government and NHS England have […]

Both sectors are many thousands of staff short, social care desperately so. “Migrant workers are propping up a crumbling care […]

The government was too hasty to scrap this and other sensible safety precautions like social distancing. "Health workers are having to cope […]

Thousands of dedicated and experienced staff have been lost to the sector

“In recent months there’s often been a gaping chasm between pledges made by ministers and the reality. “The government pledged that no care worker would lose out financially if […]

The plans are contained in the Children and Social Work Bill currently being considered by Parliament. Clause 29 of the bill would allow the […]

Government plans to reform the delivery of children’s social care have been overwhelmingly rejected by practising social workers in a new report published today (Wednesday) by UNISON. UNISON says the proposals could prove dangerous for children and fail to tackle any of the fundamental problems social workers deal with on a daily basis. UNISON says […]

Commenting on new NHS England figures published today (Thursday), highlighting the scale of delayed discharges from hospitals, UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis said: “Continuous cuts to social care budgets are the reason why many people have to stay longer in hospital than they should. “The problem is getting worse, not better. Already this year there […]

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