Time for Change: member webinar series
UNISON South East are hosting a new series of webinars called ‘Time for Change’ this autumn to help through COVID-19 and beyond. Each webinar will …
News
LGSGE nominates Paul Holmes
UNISON’s Local Government Service Group Executive (SGE) has nominated Paul Holmes for General Secretary.
NJC pay settled at 2.75%
UNISON’s elected lay member National NJC Committee met to consider the results of the consultation of members on the 2020/21 pay offer for local government …
Local pay – 2.75% offered
There is a substantial group of around 500 staff at WSCC not covered by national NJC bargaining arrangements. These are mostly managers, across HAY, Agenda …
School uniform grants: apply now!
UNISON’s 2020 School Uniform Grants programme is now available. How much are the grants? They are one-off grants of £50 per school age child, up …
UNISON Webinar for Social Workers
UNISON are holding an online webinar for social work members in England and Wales about the return to more normal working in the Covid-19 world. …
Free distance learning courses for West Sussex residents
Aspire Sussex are offering a programme of free distance learning courses to West Sussex residents. To be eligible for this promotion, you must start the …
Don’t ever call us unskilled again
Published on 5th August 2020 by Paradigm, “Don’t ever call us ‘unskilled’ again” is a report that brings you the voices of 118 Support Workers (supporting people with a learning disability and/or autism) from across the UK. The report captures their experiences, thoughts, ideas and learning during the Covid-19 pandemic …
More Capita services brought back in-house
61 Capita staff will be TUPE’d back to West Sussex County Council with effect from 1st August. They work in the ‘Service Finance’ function supporting …
Fossil fuel divestment in LGPS
Many of us do not give much thought to where our pension contributions (and those our employer makes on our behalf) are invested. But over £3billion of public service workers deferred wages are invested in the West Sussex Local Government Pension Fund. This gives our Pension Fund quite considerable muscle, …