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Undervalued, undermined and underpaid. This is the unacceptable reality for social care staff whose wages fail to reflect the challenging and highly skilled nature of their work. They do a vital job in care homes and the community, looking…
Social care staff have been paying a shocking price for doing their jobs during the pandemic. They continue to work on a ‘forgotten’ frontline where they're ignored and undervalued – all too often with devastating consequences. Recently…
We’ve been waiting for years for a social care green paper. But what we’ve been thrown instead is a grenade: the government’s proposed immigration changes. There is a crisis brewing in social care. This is a fact that few would deny. It is…
In February 2018, it was announced that all five of Salford’s ‘outstanding’ rated nurseries were set to close. Two years later, the nurseries are open and thriving. This is the result of determined joint work and campaigning by Labour…
This piece was commissioned by guest editor Jon Ashworth. Birthdays are usually a time for celebration, especially when you are much loved and have made it to 70. Such a milestone represents an opportunity to reflect on what has been…
Today the Smith Institute launches Out of Contract – Time to move on from the love in with outsourcing and PFI. It is a timely paper, coming as it does in the wake of the liquidation of Carillion, and the National Audit Office report on PFI…
As part of Fair Pay Fortnight, today NHS staff will be calling on Jeremy Hunt to reconsider his derisory pay offer to health workers. Staff working in the NHS carry out some of the most important tasks in the country. They care for people…
The Olympic opening ceremony rightly celebrated the NHS in all its glory. as a national treasure and as something we need to fight for. More than 600 nurses and NHS staff were included in the spectacle on the insistence of director, Danny…
It is not surprising that the NHS was high on the agenda at our conference this week. For members working in the health service and for all those who rely on it, the Health and Social Care Act threatens the NHS to its core. That is why Dave…
By Christina McAnea, UNISON head of health The NHS, our National Health Service - providing world-class care, delivered free at the point of use. It's a service at the heart of our country, used by every single one of us, at some of the…
