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• Levelling up won’t mean anything without decent public services

  11-05-2021 16:36
  
  Commenting on the Queen’s Speech today (Tuesday) UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea said:
  Levelling up“Hope and prosperity won’t come to forgotten communities without proper investment in public services. Years of scant resources have made it much harder for local councils to provide support to vulnerable families.
  “The government must mend the damage from a decade of cuts. Otherwise, its levelling-up agenda will mean nothing to those in need. That means
  
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• Radical reform not empty words needed on social care

  11-05-2021 14:23
  
  Responding to the government’s minimal reference to social care in the Queen’s Speech today (Tuesday), UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea said:
  “The government cannot continue with empty words. ​Ministers must stop putting off the inevitable. It’s time for action, and a radical plan to fix th​e broken ​care sector.
  “Covid has exposed ​the desperate and fragile state&
  
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• Blog: The UK government must act on planned Palestinian evictions

  11-05-2021 11:48
  
  We have all been shocked and appalled by the devastating scenes at the al-Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem during the holy month of Ramadan. On Monday, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported that over 300 Palestinians had been injured during the Israeli police raid on mosque compound – almost 230 of whom were hospitalised.
  Last night, the Israeli military carried out bombing raids on Gaza, killing 24 people, including nine children, according to the ministry of health. Two Israelis als
  
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