Oxfordshire County UNISON Branch – Local Government, Private, Community & Voluntary Sectors

World Mental Health Day 2018

UNISON are supporting World Mental Health Day. In Oxfordshire, Mind, the mental health charity, are running a Big Mental Health Survey and want to hear from anyone aged 16 years or older with personal experience of mental health problems. Now

Union Learning Fund

UNISON works with the Union Learning Fund (ULF) to offer a wide range of member learning opportunities. Backed by the Department of Education, the ULF was set up to encourage more adults back into learning, through bite-size workshops, or longer

School Uniform Grant applications 2018

Get help with school uniform costs this summer Struggling to make ends meet? Worried about back to school costs? Help is on hand We have set up a limited fund to help UNISON members on low income with school uniform

World Mental Health Day 2017 Tea & Talk

UNISON are hosting Tea and Talk events between 11am -1pm on World Mental Health Day, 10th October 2017. Oxfordshire County UNISON Branch is launching a campaign to promote positive mental health in the workplace and to improve support and provision

Mental Health Survey

Branch members should by now have received an email about our Mental Health Survey please do take the time to fill it in, it’ll only take a few minutes and it will help us a huge amount to plan the

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#MeToo One Year On 12 October, 2018
New research from the Fawcett Society has found that one year on from the outpouring of #MeToo stories, there has been a significant shift in attitudes to sexual harassment. According to the research released on 2 October by the Fawcett Society, the majority of people (53%) say that since #MeToo what is seen as acceptable […]
Justice Select Committee Report Slams TR 4 October, 2018
The Justice Select Committee Report on Transforming Rehabilitation was published in June and UNISON responded on the same day to its findings. The Committee has delivered a damning Report on TR and its detrimental impact on service users, communities and staff. The Report bears out what UNISON has been saying for years, that TR has […]
Useful Member Learning Reading Links 28 September, 2018
Unionlearn: Promoting Unionlearning 2018 booklet https://www.unionlearn.org.uk/publications/promoting-union-learning-reps-who-spread-word Unionlearn: Supporting black & minority ethnic apprentices https://www.unionlearn.org.uk/publications/supporting-black-and-minority-ethnic-apprentices For Branches: UNISON Organising Space https://www.unison.org.uk/get-involved/in-your-workplace/key-documents-tools-activists/organising-space/ Unionlearn Climbing Frame https://climbingframe.unionlearn.org.uk/Home Kickstart funding for branches https://learning.unison.org.uk/ulf/ The Reading Agency https://readingagency.org.uk/adults/ For Members: UNISON E-notes https://e-learning.unison.org.uk/ UNISON Financial support for learning https://learning.unison.org.uk/financial-support/ TUC E-notes https://www.unionlearn.org.uk/enotes TUC Youtube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgX4MFSLkZp6N-P4FzC9kAQ The article Useful Member […]