Social worker and OT pay dispute remains unresolved following multiple strikes

A dispute over inequalities in pay between adults’ and children’s practitioners at a local authority remains unresolved after staff took strike action over it earlier this year.
About 60 adult social workers and occupational therapists at South Gloucestershire Council staged walkouts over six days between April and June 2023 in protest at the fact that they were not receiving market supplements paid to their children’s colleagues.
In a dispute that started last summer, they and