EDINBURGH SUPPORT WORKER'S
ACTION NETWORK
Budget cuts and competitive tendering threaten to wreck social care services in Edinburgh depriving service-users of quality and choice and reducing the role of support worker to a minimum wage, unskilled role.
Its time to stand up for our jobs and our service-users.
Next organising meeting;
7pm Sunday 22nd November 2009
Autonomous Centre of Edinburgh,
17 West Montgomery Place,
EH7 5HA
At the first meeting of the Support Worker’s Action Network (SWAN) it was agreed that our main objectives would be to campaign for the City of Edinburgh Council to;
- Stop blocking Direct Payments
- Abandon competitive tendering as a way of selecting service providers
- Guarantee adequate funding to enable genuine service-user choice
and retain well trained, good quality staff
We aim to create a network of frontline staff from across organisations and workplaces and to organise against the attacks on service-user choice and staff pay and conditions posed by the current tendering process.
Contact - swanedinburgh@yahoo.co.uk
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