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Ministers must take responsibility and pledge to deliver a well-funded national care service with nationwide pay scales.

“Insourcing, insourcing, insourcing is the solution to market failure”, delegates hear

UNISON believes the Bill threatens the employment of tens of thousands of workers and would mean huge sums of money spent on structural change rather than improving services. – […]

After four months of collective action, support workers received £780 back pay alongside the pay increase

Deep-rooted staffing problems will only begin to be resolved by addressing endemic low pay in the sector.

‘Social care now needs to be moved to the front of the queue’

It’s time for change. Social care should become part of a nationally recognised institution, as respected as the NHS

The annual conference was held in Bournemouth on Friday 3 and Saturday 4 March

The prime minister and the health secretary must make social care a priority

Pay and proper planning is key to fixing NHS and social care

The desperate shortage of workers and huge funding shortfall is placing the entire system at risk of collapse. The focus cannot be […]

The government’s had years to improve the workforce situation but has done little.

Nothing short of a complete overhaul of the care sector will do.

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

Cabinet shares responsibility with Boris Johnson for state of the UK