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Team of the Year, Adults Services Gold Award Winners 2024

Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust win ‘Team of the Year’ at nati...

Around 200 social care support officers and hearing impairment officers employed by Lancashire County Council will take part in the strike

Staff in social work teams employed by LCC to go on strike

New figures have shown significant rise in cases in Buckinghamshire, photo from PA Images

Laid-off Lancashire NHS staff receive pay-outs after union campaign

School support workers, cleaning staff and janitors are currently on strike in Scotland as the Unison union remains locked in a pay dispute with education chiefs. (Credit: Jane Barlow/PA Wire)

Scottish school support staff stage strike in pay dispute

How are County Hall's coffers coping?

Autumn date set for Lancashire County Council financial healthcheck

The office building which planners hope to turn into holiday apartments.

'Cinderella' street apartments for tourists to Preston

Nurses to vote on England-wide strikes after rejecting 5% pay rise

International Day of the Midwife falls on Friday, 5 May in 202

Happy International Day of the Midwife 2023: How to get involved

Members of the Royal College of Nursing union could strike until Christmas if no deal is reached with the government over pay. (Photo by Hesther Ng/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Royal College of Nursing warns of more strikes

Royal College of Nurses members, campaigning for fair pay and conditions, pictured previously taking part in industrial action at Altnagelvin Hospital. Photo: George Sweeney. DER2250GS - 38

RCN rejects Government’s pay offer - new 48 hour strike to go ahead

MP Julie Elliott alongside paramedics on the picket line outside Sunderland Ambulance station.

NHS Unison members accept pay deal offer in England

Nursing strikes 2023: Royal College of Nursing, the GMB & Unison back new pay offer - but it’s not over yet

Nursing strikes 2023: Unions back pay offer - but it’s not over yet

Staff from North West Ambulance Service on a picket line outside Wigan Community Fire and Ambulance Station in January

North West Ambulance Service bosses prepare for more strike action by staff

Eldon Primary School, on Eldon Street in Preston, is currently rated as outstanding by Ofsted

Unions claim 'high staff turnover' at "outstanding" Preston primary school

National ambulance and NHS trade unions have announced a day of strike action to take place tomorrow.

NHS advise when to use 999 as ambulance driver strikes begin today

Ambulance workers on strike at the Devonshire Road temporary station

Warning to only call 999 in ‘life-threatening emergencies’ amid more strikes
North West Ambulance Service has urged the public to call 999 only in life-threatening situations amid more strike action.
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Christina McAnea, general secretary of UNISON, poses with ambulance workers at a picket line outside the Waterloo ambulance station in London on December 21, 2022. - Striking UK ambulance workers took to the picket lines, escalating a dispute with the government over its refusal to increase pay above inflation after recent walkouts by nurses. (Photo by Niklas HALLE’N / AFP) (Photo by NIKLAS HALLE’N/AFP via Getty Images)

Ambulance workers in England announce two new strike dates

List of all the strikes taking place in the lead up to Christmas 2022

North West Ambulance Service urged the public to call 999 only in life-threatening situations as strike action loomed

Ambulance service pleas for 999 calls only in 'life-threatening emergencies'

Army staff helped operate ambulance services during the COVID-19 pandemic.

1,200 troops to cover for striking ambulance & Border Force staff

A group of fraudsters have been posing as ambulance staff and knocking on doors asking for financial support ahead of upcoming industrial action.

Fraudsters posing as ambulance staff seen asking for donations

Staff at the National Coal Mining Museum in Wakefield are on strike (Photo credit OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images)

Wakefield’s National Coal Mining Museum staff to strike over pay

Exam board staff are striking again this week, affecting GCSE results day. Image: Ben Mullins on Unsplash

Exam board staff will strike this week on GCSE results day

Health workers employed by private company OCS at Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Trust are expected to strike for 72 hours at the end of the month.

Frontline health workers vote ‘yes’ to strike action at sites across Lancashire

Dozens of staff are set to walk out at St. Matthew's Church of England Primary School on New Hall Lane over plans for it to become an academy (image: Kelvin Stuttard)

"Resign": Preston school strike is on after academy conversion plan is confirmed

Covid jab deadline looms on unvaccinated care staff in Lancashire

This is how many Lancashire care workers face the sack for snubbing Covid jab

Rishi Sunak to end public sector pay freeze in Autumn Budget: what that means fo... Henry Sandercock

Unison has urged ministers to abandon the “draconian” no jab, no job policy (Photo: Getty Images)

Mandatory jab deadline for carers risks ‘catastrophic’ staff shortages

People needing occasional overnight support are provided with "sleep-in" care workers - but how much should they be paid?

Lancashire's sleep-in care workers seek pay they say they are owed

A Nurse with a placard outside the Royal College of Nursingin Victoria Tower Gardens, London

NHS staff in England will get 3% pay rise after day of confusion

Lifeways' Lancashire office on Percy Street in Chorley

Staff claim they are 'regularly underpaid' by firm providing Lancashire care ser...

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Trade union calls for masks in schools

North West ambulance staff will hold a consultative ballot over whether to go on strike due to being left "exhausted" by a procedure which sees them called out to incidents up to 40 minutes away.

North West Ambulance staff to consider strike action over 'excessive mileage', s...

More than 25 per cent of care home staff in Lancashire have still not had their vaccine

More than a quarter of care home staff not recorded as having vaccine in Lancash...

The Government has said early years settings should remain open to all children

Some nurseries to partially close due to safety fears

Ambulance services were overwhelmed for a time this week.

Ambulance crisis 'could get worse' warns union

Bluebell Court, Blackpool

Lancashire carers rally against alleged underpayment as 'shifts slashed to less ...

Firefighters were called to free a casualty trapped in their car after a crash on the M6 northbound, near Charnock Richard, in January 2017. There is no suggestion any were hurt on this specific job (Picture: Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service)

Firefighters increasingly hurt on the job - with rise blamed on heavy lifting du...

These are your rights as a worker during the coronavirus pandemic

Boris Johnson. Picture: PA

New coronavirus warning system to be unveiled by Prime Minister

Mr Johnson is planning to urge workers who cannot do their jobs from home to begin returning to their workplaces (Photo by John Bond-WPA Pool/Getty Images)

PM to unveil Covid-19 alert system with new message to 'control the virus'

Emotional scenes outside Wigan Infirmary where staff and public mourn the loss of four Wigan health workers who contracted Covid-19

British public to hold minute's silence in tribute to NHS staff who have died fr...

A minute's silence will be held across the UK today (28 April) to commemorate the key workers who have lost their lives from Covid-19 (Photo: Shutterstock)

Here’s what you need to know about today’s minute’s silence for key workers

South Ribble Borough Council leader Paul Foster

South Ribble Council leader "appalled" by how much apprentices were being paid

Home Office figures show crews from the Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service attended 43 callouts for bariatric assistance

Lancashire's firefighters regularly being called to move overweight people

South Ribble Council headquarters where decision will be taken tonight.

Trade union set for recognition by South Ribble

If you’re a smoker then nipping out for a cigarette or vape at work may be much needed (Photo: Shutterstock)

These are the laws about smoking or vaping at work - and how many breaks you can...

In 2017-18, after the UK voted to leave the EU, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Trust hired just 33 EU citizens

Brexit effect hitting NHS in Lancashire

Thirty-nine per cent of workers at the Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust had felt unwell due to work-related stress over the last 12 months

Shocking stress levels of Preston's NHS workers

Ambulances took 6,323 patients to emergency departments at the Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trustbetween December 3 and February 3

Worrying figures reveal just how long patients have to wait in ambulances outsid...

County hall plans to save 77m in the next four years.

Better bus lane enforcement amongst plans to bridge county council deficit

Paramedics are planninga strike on repeated Saturdays

Paramedics' industrial action to pile on the pressure in Lancashire

The NHS is under pressure this summer

Lancashire's stretched NHS feeling the heat this summer

North West paramedics from the GMB union are to continue weekend industrial action until October.

Ambulance staff to press on with strikes

Nearly one in three NHS staff have been off with stress

Stressed staff 'paying price' for keeping NHS afloat