Emergency duty social workers pause strike over safety concerns

Emergency duty service social workers have paused strike action following concerns that urgent calls were not being responded to in their absence.
The Swindon council practitioners returned to work on Monday (11 September) after their union, the GMB, reported that safeguarding concerns had not been dealt with by the authority.
It claimed that calls from the police raising concerns about a woman vulnerable to exploitation, from a local hospital about a child using recreational drugs and from a nu