Social workers begin strike over ‘unsafe’ staffing levels

Social workers have begun a three-day strike over staffing levels in their service that their union describes as unsafe.
The walkout, from 8-10 May, marks an escalation of an existing dispute at Belfast Health and Social Care Trust that saw children and families practitioners start taking industrial action short of a strike last month.
Their union, NIPSA, said the action was in protest against “a sustained staffing crisis in family and childcare services” across Northern Ireland, whi