Strike ballot opens for mental health social workers

Mental health social workers are voting on whether to strike over “chronic staffing” issues in their teams.
Barnet UNISON’s ballot of practitioners in the London borough’s north and south mental health teams, and its approved mental health professional (AMHP) service, started on 31 July, running until 1 September.
In June this year, the union branch reported that nine practitioners had left the mental health teams this year, against a staffing complement of 22.
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