<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Employment issues articles from Community Care</title><link>http://www.communitycare.co.uk</link><description>Read articles about employment issues from Community Care as soon as they're published.</description><language>en-gb</language><copyright>Reed Business Information, 2006</copyright><generator /><lastBuildDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 12:01:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><ttl>60</ttl><item><title>Youth work pay</title><link>http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/05/16/108209/youth-work-pay.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/05/16/108209/youth-work-pay.html</guid><category>News</category><description>A: It is difficult to know whether £14,000 is a reasonable salary without knowing more detail about the role, the hours and where it is based. Research comparable...</description><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 12:01:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>CC Live: Social work 'must put safety before clients'</title><link>http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/05/16/108201/cc-live-social-work-must-put-safety-before-clients.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/05/16/108201/cc-live-social-work-must-put-safety-before-clients.html</guid><category>News</category><description>Social workers must put their safety first and their clients second in situations where they feel at risk, Community Care Live heard yesterday.</description><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 10:06:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>CC Live: Care staff 'must sue employers for workplace assaults'</title><link>http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/05/15/108195/cc-live-care-staff-must-sue-employers-for-workplace-assaults.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/05/15/108195/cc-live-care-staff-must-sue-employers-for-workplace-assaults.html</guid><category>News</category><description>Social workers need to start taking legal action against their employers when they are assaulted at work, a Conservative Party candidate and youth worker told Community Care Live yesterday.</description><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 14:20:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Couple's suicide over care home fears</title><link>http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/05/15/108191/couples-suicide-over-care-home-fears.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/05/15/108191/couples-suicide-over-care-home-fears.html</guid><category>News</category><description>Other headlines in today's paper include:- Rewards for good hospitals, action on schools.</description><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 09:43:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>News round up: Couple's suicide over care home fears</title><link>http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/05/15/108190/news-round-up-couples-suicide-over-care-home-fears.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/05/15/108190/news-round-up-couples-suicide-over-care-home-fears.html</guid><category>News</category><description>Other headlines in today's paper include:- Rewards for good hospitals, action on schools.</description><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 09:42:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>House of Commons lobby held for sacked nurse Karen Reissmann</title><link>http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/05/13/108175/house-of-commons-lobby-held-for-sacked-nurse-karen-reissmann.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/05/13/108175/house-of-commons-lobby-held-for-sacked-nurse-karen-reissmann.html</guid><category>News</category><description>Health workers, patients and union activists have marched on parliament in protest against the sacking of Manchester community psychiatric nurse Karen Reissmann, allegedly for speaking out against service cuts.</description><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 12:24:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Ministers may look at social care insurance as costs rise</title><link>http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/05/13/108168/ministers-may-look-at-social-care-insurance-as-costs-rise.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/05/13/108168/ministers-may-look-at-social-care-insurance-as-costs-rise.html</guid><category>News</category><description>Other headlines in today's papers include:- Bar lesbians from IVF treatment in absence of father figure, say Tories; Carer who tried to kill husband spared jail; The multiple sclerosis sufferer who spent six years sleeping in a chair after 'health bosses banned nurses from lifting her in case they got injured'</description><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 09:16:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>News round up: Ministers may look at social care insurance</title><link>http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/05/13/108167/news-round-up-ministers-may-look-at-social-care-insurance.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/05/13/108167/news-round-up-ministers-may-look-at-social-care-insurance.html</guid><category>News</category><description>Other headlines in today's papers include:- Bar lesbians from IVF treatment in absence of father figure, say Tories; Carer who tried to kill husband spared jail; The multiple sclerosis sufferer who spent six years sleeping in a chair after 'health bosses banned nurses from lifting her in case they got injured'</description><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 09:16:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>GSCC bars social work student for 'dishonesty and deception'</title><link>http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/05/12/108165/gscc-bars-social-work-student-for-dishonesty-and-deception.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/05/12/108165/gscc-bars-social-work-student-for-dishonesty-and-deception.html</guid><category>News</category><description>A General Social Care Council conduct committee has struck off a Cornwall social worker for failing to declare previous criminal convictions for financial dishonesty.</description><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 14:23:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Local government pay: Unison considers strike ballot</title><link>http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/05/12/108124/local-government-pay-unison-considers-strike-ballot.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/05/12/108124/local-government-pay-unison-considers-strike-ballot.html</guid><category>News</category><description>Unison's local government pay negotiators will meet today to consider the case for balloting members on industrial action on council employers' 2.45% offer to staff for 2008-9.</description><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 11:37:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>