Care news

• Union launches charter to protect care workers on sponsored UK visas

  04-11-2024 15:21
  
  Salford council is first signatory to Unison agreement intended to prevent exploitation of migrant workers Care workers from countries such as India, Nigeria and the Philippines who faced losing their immigration status in the UK if they left their employers have been promised new protections by a landmark, grassroots deal.The migrant care workers charter is an agreement designed by care workers and the trade union Unison to prevent the exploitation of people on sponsored visas – and Salfo
  
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• Killing Time by Alan Bennett review – senior moments full of wit and style

  04-11-2024 08:00
  
  The author employs his pitch-perfect repertoire of satirical skills in his first book for five years – a novella about the residents of an upmarket care home during the pandemicAlan Bennett, now 90, hasn’t published anything original in book form for five years. In the meantime – the Covid years and the Johnson years and the Truss month – readers have had to be content with the peerless annual diaries he writes for the London Review of Books, yearly proof that his special
  
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