How should social workers respond to budget cuts, pay freezes and the erosion of their benefits? If an old-fashioned work-to-rule doesn’t seem possible, you could stop smiling, says Blair Mcpherson. Tis the season to be jolly but what if you don’t feel jolly? What if the latest budget cuts, enforced overtime and proposals to reduced [...]
How should social workers respond to budget cuts, pay freezes and the erosion of their benefits? If an old-fashioned work-to-rule doesn’t seem possible, you could stop smiling, says Blair Mcpherson. Tis the season to be jolly but what if you don’t feel jolly? What if the latest budget cuts, enforced overtime and proposals to reduced [...]
Unions last week announced plans to organise national strikes over public sector pay. Guest blogger Sophia Williams rounds up what was said. Brief background to the pay dispute Council social workers and care staff saw their pay frozen in 2012-13 for the third year in a row. As the Guardian reported last week, this three-year pay [...]
With all the excitement of the Olympics this week, I missed Undercover Boss on Monday – in which Pam Finnis, managing director of one of Britain’s biggest care home firms, HC-One, (pictured above left) went undercover in some of the homes to investigate standards of care. The programme is typical tear-jerky Undercover Boss fare, but [...]
As I said in my first blog post upon returning to Community Care, I’m still not sure where I stand on the question of introducing regional pay to the public sector. However, it is interesting to find out that, of the 114 social workers who responded to a recent poll by recruitment consultancy Liquid Personnel, [...]
The Social Work blog covers the challenges facing Britain’s 2m-strong social care workforce: everything from pay and working conditions to stress and the latest social work conduct cases.
It is written by beat editor Kirsty McGregor
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