UNISON Welfare School Uniform Grant

UNISON There for You: School Uniform Grant 2017

If you have children in full time education, you may be eligible to receive a school uniform grant from UNISON's charity There for You. To be considered, you must either be:

In receipt of Housing Benefit; or Your net annual income £18,000 or below.

Closing date for application is 21 July 2017.

Further Information is available here 

UNISON Comments on the Queen's Speech

The Queen's Speech has ignored the nation's concerns, says UNISON

Commenting on the Queen's Speech, UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis said: "Ministers are living in a parallel universe. Years of harsh spending cuts have caused huge damage to public services across the country.

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The residential care system is failing the elderly, says UNISON

Elderly and vulnerable people in residential care homes are being left in re-used continence pads, denied trips to the toilet and kept indoors for days on end because of severe staff shortages, according to a survey published by UNISON.

The vast majority (83 per cent) of care workers say they are so rushed they are compromising the dignity and well-being of the people they look after. This is despite many staff (80 per cent) regularly working through their breaks.

The findings are based on survey responses from more than 1,000 care staff working in private and local authority care homes across the UK.

Further information on the survey can be found here

Government must scrap the pay cap says UNISON, as survey shows public service employees are struggling

Staff providing public services are being forced to cut back on groceries,borrow money from friends or family, and even go without meals to feed their children because the government has capped their pay, according to a survey from UNISON.

The survey is released to coincide with the first day of UNISON's national conference in Brighton. Dave Prentis, General secretary, will call upon the government to lift the pay cap, and undo the damage its pay policies are causing.

The research is based on responses from more than 6,500 employees including paramedics, teaching assistants, council workers and police staff across the UK. The survey highlights how years of wage restraint have left many struggling through to the next pay day.

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