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List of failures shows how little government understands about care sector

27-05-2021 18:55

Commenting today (Thursday) on the Prime Minister’s claim everything possible was done to limit Covid spread in care homes, UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea said: “It’s simply not true the government did all it could to protect the care sector.
“Discharging hospital patients into care homes without testing was a colossal mistake that could and should have been avoided. It’s just one of many ways that the go

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UNISON’s special conference – latest update

27-05-2021 16:22

UNISON has published the draft order of business for its special delegate conference next month.
The continuing effects of the pandemic means that the union’s traditional national delegate conference can’t take place this year.
But the union’s work – and democracy – on behalf of public service workers continues apace, so a one-off, special delegate conference is happening online. And there are important things to discuss.
There are three major themes for all the mot

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Publish data on school Covid variant cases now, say unions

27-05-2021 11:11

Eight unions, collectively representing the majority of school and college staff, have today (Thursday) written to the education secretary to call for immediate publication of the data held by the government and Public Health England (PHE) on the total number of variant cases linked to schools and colleges.
The letter says: “Education unions have repeatedly requested this data since early May. It should have been released in advance of the change in guidance on face coverings, which came i

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Government data on Covid variant cases linked to schools should be published immediately, say education unions

27-05-2021 11:11

Eight unions, collectively representing the majority of school and college staff, have today (Thursday) written to the education secretary to call for immediate publication of the data held by the government and Public Health England (PHE) on the total number of variant cases linked to schools and colleges.
The letter says: “Education unions have repeatedly requested this data since early May. It should have been released in advance of the change in guidance on face coverings, which came i

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