Behind The Service: A UNISON Insight into Local Government

The Care Sector’s Unsung Heroes with Samantha Thornton and Gavin Edwards #18

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The care sector has a glimmer of hope in the form of a new National Care Service, but such optimism comes after too many years of unsung heroes keeping the sector together.

One such hero is Dimension UK’s Samantha Thornton, who joins us on the UNISON Local Government Podcast alongside our Senior National Officer for Social Care, Gavin Edwards.

We cover the difference that our Ethical Care Charter makes to carers, the ambitions for a proposed Fair Pay Agreement, and the past & future states of the care sector in the UK right now.

This episode of The UNISON Local Government Podcast covers:

  • The current state of the care sector, and a typical day for those working within it

  • What a National Care Service would mean for care workers and the public

  • The Fair Pay Agreement, and the difference it’d make for care workers

  • UNISON’s campaigning in the sector and its impacts on the workforce

  • Advice for care & support workers currently in the profession


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