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One Workforce

One Workforce . Ben Thomas National Officer Education and Children’s Services Unit. Background. UNISON Largest union across children’s workforce representing over 350,000 staff.

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One Workforce

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  1. One Workforce Ben Thomas National Officer Education and Children’s Services Unit

  2. Background UNISON • Largest union across children’s workforce representing over 350,000 staff. • Members in early years, schools, social care, play, careers, youth work, health, sports and leisure, probation and criminal justice.

  3. Why Quality Matters ‘The quality of staff is the greatest single contributing factor to the quality of a child’s experience of childcare.’

  4. Pay and the link to quality

  5. Pay and Professionalism • Clear discrepancies in pay rates • Barrier to integrated working • Differences in professional status • Link to recruitment and retention

  6. Low Pay IDS Nursery Staff Survey 2009 • Median Pay for Nursery Assistant in PVI setting £5.89 p/h • Median Pay for Nursery Nurse £6.37 • National Minimum Wage £5.73 p/h • Staff Turnover rates of 18%

  7. Pay and Quality Staff • Pay is most significant factor in the low paid changing jobs • Pay has a direct link to quality of recruits • Pay is linked to the diversity of the workforce

  8. Issues Going Forward • National Workforce Partnership • Next Steps – a representative body? • Single Funding Formula • Wholly Qualified workforce by 2015 • School Support Staff Negotiating Body • Change in Government?

  9. Details • www.unison.co.uk b.thomas@unison.co.uk • UNISON • 1 Mabledon Place • London • WC1H 9AJ • UK

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