Social work news

• Social workers re-balloted on striking after 27 days of action leaves pay dispute unresolved

  18-02-2024 12:33
  
  Social workers are being re-balloted on striking after 27 days of action over the past five months left their pay and staffing dispute unresolved.
  UNISON members in Barnet council’s mental health teams are voting on further walkouts in pursuit of similar retention payments to those received by their children’s social worker counterparts in the borough.
  Barnet UNISON said this was needed to tackle significant attrition from the council’s north and south mental health teams and i
  
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• ‘Grow up’ and talk about social care, Andrew Dilnot tells Labour and Tories

  18-02-2024 08:00
  
  As an election approaches, both parties must end their irresponsible silence about the crisis in England, pleads the architect of funding reformsThe Conservatives and Labour need to “grow up” and end an irresponsible refusal to talk about solving England’s social care crisis before the next election, the architect of seminal care reforms has warned.In a despairing rebuke to both major parties, Sir Andrew Dilnot, whose government-backed commission proposed a cap on social care c
  
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