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Claire Sweeney stars in our new short film with a difference
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When Angela Rayner was growing up she went to her gran’s house for a bath on Sundays because her parents couldn’t always afford hot water.
She lived in a council estate in a home with no books and both her parents were on benefits. Now she’s shadow education secretary
The data on homecare for over 65s
Council becomes the latest to commit itself to UNISON’s standards for homecare, carers and those needing care
Adult social care is in crisis, but UNISON has a solution – find out how UNISON’s proposal to use a £2.4bn business rate surplus in England would affect funding in your area
Health and social care partnership commits to achieving fair work, better pay and improved quality of care on eve of Living Wage Week
Check our campaign briefing for SOS Day on 16 Novembers for ways you can get involved
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.
The crisis in adult social care is set to worsen due to a growing funding gap, UNISON has told the Communities and Local Government Committee.
It used to take Judith Montgomery three and a half hours to earn two hours’ pay.
Failure to honour the minimum wage is endemic across the care sector as many homecare workers are unpaid for the time they travel between home visits – which can be up to a fifth of their working day, says UNISON today (Thursday). The union is urging the government to end the systematic underpayment that it […]
East Midlands council signs up to quality care and fair pay during National Carers’ Week
Vitally important care workers are being paid far less than the absolute basic minimum that they should receive: nearly 20 years on from the establishment of a minimum wage in this country, that should be a source of national embarrassment