Blog: Launching UNISON’s campaign for a National Care Service

It’s clear to everyone that social care is broken. During the pandemic, this crucial public service was left exposed to the ravages of COVID-19. Care workers forced to work without PPE, no sick pay for self-isolation and older and disabled patients discharged from hospitals into care homes while COVID-positive. It led to a national tragedy and the scale of loss was among the worse in Europe.
But the problems in social care didn’t start when COVID-19 arrived. For decades, governments