‘Proper staff are vital,’ says UNISON as park crisis grows

MPs’ report highlights growing threat to UK’s parks and open spaces as cuts bite deeper

Adult social care is the biggest pressure on councils

Research reveals the pressure on councils

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Save Our Services: How cuts are hitting Black people

Black workers are usually the first to lose their job in a recession – and this has been true for services provided by local government in the latest recession

rows of books in a library

‘Ten thousand books were pulped’ – your library stories

UNISON members share their experiences of what the local government cuts have meant for library services where they live and work

‘Ten thousand books were pulped’ – your library stories

UNISON members share their experiences of what the local government cuts have meant for library services where they live and work

Behind the headlines, Magazine, UNISON people on the Magazine site.
Librarian Shazzia Rock reads to children at her library

Reading between the lines: what’s going on with our libraries?

Libraries are under threat – what’s happening with them in your area?

Reading between the lines: what’s going on with our libraries?

Libraries are under threat – what’s happening with them in your area?

Behind the headlines, Magazine on the Magazine site.

Save Our Services: Public pay the price of job cuts

Without a backbone of administrative and clerical workers to help take the strain, our vital local services will collapse

The campaign to Save Our Local Services goes on

UNISON will continue to campaign for vital local services to be properly funded after successful day of action focused on social care raised awareness with MPs

More money for social care is needed – but what does that mean for your area?

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

Care cuts crisis leaving older people without adequate care, says UNISON

Vulnerable older people are being denied regular showers and visits to the toilet because of cuts to social care budgets, a UNISON report has warned today (Friday). The Damage: Care in Crisis is based on a survey of more than 1,000 staff across the UK working in homecare, residential support and day services, and looking […]

‘Social care is at a tipping point’

Check our campaign briefing for SOS Day on 16 Novembers for ways you can get involved

Finding a way through Brexit

As the UK wonders what happens next in a post-Brexit world, UNISON is acting now

Under pressure, underfunded and undervalued

Laying bare the experiences of more than 2,200 UNISON members working in councils and schools, delivering the local services we all rely on

UNISON leads campaign to save Bolton children’s centres

Union launches protest after council announces merger plan that will see two thirds of centres closed