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Decades of underfunding, privatisation and recent years of government spending cuts have led to a crisis in social care funding, making it […]

Each home had its own team to support four people, with a manager and assistant manager, to make sure the service always ran smoothly and met the needs of the […]

The union wrote to all the councils yesterday, International Women’s Day, warning that thousands of women across the country “are suffering the effects of in-work poverty, despite their […]

A UNISON member from Lancaster, Graeme is softly spoken and articulate, and he has more reason than most to be concerned about the state of social care […]

The charter contains a set of commitments to protect the dignity and quality of life for vulnerable people and the workers who care for them. It states that […]

Date

1 May 2018 8:30pm–10:00pm

Location

Saw Swee Hock Student Centre, London School of Economics,1 Sheffield St, London WC2A 2AP

If a society is judged on its ability to care for those who need support, what does it mean to turn caring into profit?

But I thought that there must be a reason behind the behaviour, and I rang the office and told them about it. I work in homecare now as part of a re-enablement […]

UNISON is currently in negotiations with the company and will enter into negotiations with the Northern Health Trust and the Health and Social Care Board in […]

It results in illegally low wages and 15-minute visits. To raise awareness of the issue among the general public we have made a short […]

Another delegate explained how their branch had created mentoring and buddying schemes to help and support new reps. In other debates, the Black LGBT caucus […]

We have been campaigning for this for a long time, and one of the things we have been doing is persuading local councils, who are responsible for […]

And recent data from the Health Survey for England shows that many over 65-year-olds are not getting […]

The Westminster Hall debate will take place next Wednesday between 2:30pm and 4pm, and will be led by Sheffield Labour MP Paul Blomfield. Hundreds of thousands of homecare […]

To do this we need your help. Please complete the short questionnaire at the link below and tell us how cuts to social care services for older people have affected you. Take the survey […]

Research reveals the pressure on councils