UNISON, the union representing 300,000 social care workers, today (9 November) called on the Government to sit up and take notice of a new report*, showing that quality care depends on quality staff. The union is calling for the narrow focus on cash for care for the elderly to switch to how best to provide [...]

UNISON, the UK’s leading public sector trade union, is urging the Care Quality Commission* to ensure training requirements in health and social care are boosted, rather than remove minimum standards. The union, along with it’s members who work as inspectors in the Care Quality Commission, is warning that cutting minimum training standards could leave people [...]

Commenting on the NSPCC’s statement that too many at-risk children are being left with their parents, Helga Pile, UNISON’s Head of Social Care, said:
“High standards for children taken into care are vitally important.

UNISON, the UK’s largest public sector union, is calling on councils to deliver care, not cash and to step up investment in the social care workforce, following a report published by the Commission for Social Care and Inspection(*).