Gavin Edwards: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Sector leader
- Role
- Unison head of social care
- Quoted on
- Adult social care & reform, NHS & care workforce/staffing
- Tracked press citations
- 4
- Most recently quoted
- 30 Sept 2026
- First quoted
- 8 Sept 2026
“called on the Government to speed up the reform timetable and to bring in its Fair Pay Agreement without delay along with higher funding to improve wages and working conditions”
What Gavin Edwards has said
“At last, the UK has a government prepared to take the exploitation of overseas workers seriously and, more importantly, act to stop bad employers from exploiting at whim.”
UNISON head of social care · Adult social care & reform · 8 Sept 2026 · Clampdown on rogue bosses is good news for exploited overseas care staff, Union says ↗
“People know they can earn more delivering parcels or making coffees on the high street.”
Unison · NHS & care workforce/staffing · 8 Sept 2026 · EDITOR’S VIEW: Care Worker Visa changes another painful setback for the sector ↗
“The level of exploitation and workplace abuse that this particular group of workers has experienced has been off the scale. It's astounding.”
head of social care at Unison · Adult social care & reform · 27 Aug 2026 · Increasing leave to remain timeframe for UK care workers ‘cruel’, say campaigners ↗
Where Gavin Edwards has been quoted
- 'Social care reform caught in political catch-22,' report findshealthcare-management.uk · 30 Sept 2026
- Clampdown on rogue bosses is good news for exploited overseas care staff, Union sayscarehomeprofessional.com · 8 Sept 2026
- EDITOR’S VIEW: Care Worker Visa changes another painful setback for the sectorcarehomeprofessional.com · 8 Sept 2026
- Increasing leave to remain timeframe for UK care workers ‘cruel’, say campaignerstheguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026
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