Meet the people and organisations behind Providers Unite, and discover why they’ve joined the movement.
Our national spokesperson, Nadra Ahmed CBE, advocates for Providers Unite on major platforms. Here she speaks with Victoria Derbyshire and Wes Streeting on the urgent need to stabilise and value social care.
It is time to admit that everyone else cannot be wrong. It is government policy which is wrong and the failure to invest in social care makes the decision makers complicit in the inevitability of the collapse of our sector as we know it.
The key component of delivering care and support is our amazing 1.6m workforce. Yet here too there are issues: there are over 131,000 vacancies, and nearly one in five posts is filled by an international colleague.
A workforce strategy launched by Skills for Care has had limited impact on decision makers, despite the fact that we will need nearly half a million more carers in the coming decade.
Social care providers across the UK joined together to oppose the Chancellor’s decision to raise employer National Insurance contributions.
Access Social Care is calling on the public to write to their MPs for a fairer, sustainable system built on people’s rights.
Prompted by the Guardian’s podcast on the social care crisis, Sarah Wight highlights the danger of repeating the same messages without change.
Claims of new Home Office ‘mass fatality’ plans are misleading — the fact check explains they’ve existed for decades.
This Bill makes provision for combined authorities, county authorities, the Greater London Authority, local councils, police and crime commissioners, and fire and rescue authorities — as well as local audit and business tenancy rent terms.
The ADASS Spring Survey 2025 highlights intensifying financial pressures, rising demand for care, and the growing reliance on unpaid carers.
Unite has extended a recognition agreement with social care provider Key, covering almost 2,500 workers across Scotland.
With staffing costs up and funding gaps widening, Providers Unite has emerged to press government for urgent support. Colliers maps the consequences for care home viability and real estate, citing survey data and calling for longer-term solutions.
Providers Unite has emerged as a national campaign championing the care sector. The article outlines how rising costs, wage pressures and National Insurance changes are driving calls for urgent government action amid a projected multibillion-pound funding gap.
“A future where social care is financially stable, the whole workforce is valued with fair pay, and our services are recognised as essential to society.”
We are carers, workers, leaders, and families.
We are the backbone of care.
And we’re not going anywhere.
We represent a vital network serving over 1.2 million people and employing 1.59 million professionals—the invisible infrastructure behind our communities and the NHS. Together, we deliver essential care services valued at £68.1 billion.
Decades of underfunding and broken promises have pushed providers to the edge. But we are not standing by – we are standing together.
Providers Unite is a grassroots coalition uniting community care and support providers across the UK to demand urgent action and protect our sector from collapse.
