This is over its decision to award staff in children’s services an additional temporary £3,000 payment on top of their basic annual salary, but not those doing the same job in adult services […]
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"Suggested reforms in this review could make all the difference and will be welcomed by many social work staff. “Strengthening family support teams would provide […]
The research findings were presented at a university conference on children and families ain London yesterday and Mr Egan commented: “This study reflects what UNISON’s social […]
Alongside the frontline health and care staff, there are people around the UK keeping essential services going, who are being largely […]
Malcolm Jarvis of Salford moved a motion to Say no to National Assessment and Accreditation, telling delegates that the work done by social workers in children’s services is […]
The consultation document is here: Changes to Social WorkEngland's regulatory framework - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). UNISON was not engaged in developing these […]
The plans are contained in the Children and Social Work Bill currently being considered by Parliament. Clause 29 of the bill would allow the […]
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 […]
“We need more classroom assistants, but the school can’t afford to pay them. “I went to this school myself. In those days it was fantastic, but now it’s changed […]
If your son loses his job and he’s the breadwinner, the mother and father are bound to worry about their grandchildren […]
The government argued that the move would have allowed “a local authority in England to test different ways of working, with a view to achieving better outcomes”. But UNISON […]
“But their jobs are becoming even harder as referrals soar, and budgets are squeezed. This understandably is causing huge stress and anxiety as staff worry that […]
The bill is currently going through Parliament and would apply to adult and children's social work in England. A joint statement by five groups […]
So we see more and more families coming into our remit because of these environmental factors. You can’t deny the […]
The local authority with the lowest average caseload is Kingston upon Thames with 10.2, and the highest is Staffordshire, with 26.4. However, there are a couple of problems with this data […]