Staff in social work teams are to stage a four-day strike in a dispute over salary grades and working arrangements. Around 200 social care support officers and hearing impairment officers
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The Government is pledging to create a new partnership between business, unions and workers with wide-ranging changes to employment rights. An Employment Rights Bill will be introduced within the first
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The Health Secretary has announced he will meet junior doctors on Tuesday in an effort to end strike action and discuss reform. Wes Streeting will first meet the British Dental
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Labour’s Angela Rayner has said she will “fight every single day” for carers in England to receive the real living wage as she recalled her own experience as a care
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A Christian social worker who was rejected for a job after a health charity discovered his views on homosexuality has vowed to appeal after an employment tribunal upheld part of
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The adult social care sector is in need of “deep reform”, Labour has said but the party’s manifesto pledges have been branded “broad promises, with little detail and no timetable
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Workers in the social care sector are dealing with crushing workloads, violence and “terrible terms and conditions”, according to a report. The GMB union said there was now a mental
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A woman has won her employment tribunal case against a rape crisis centre where she was subjected to a “heresy hunt” for her gender critical views. Roz Adams has won
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Morale among nursing staff has “collapsed” amid a crisis caused by staff shortages and low pay, according to a study. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said a survey of
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The number of foreign care workers applying for a visa to come to the UK fell by a quarter in six months. Health and care visa applications covering 153,500 people
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