Foster Care

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A fostering couple have won a legal battle against a local authority over employment rights in a legal decision that will be "highly significant" for Scotland's other 4,000 foster carers. Jimmy and Christine Johnstone were the first foster carers to be given employment rights after an employmen

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The Employment Appeal Tribunal in Edinburgh will today hear a landmark case on the rights of foster care workers. Glasgow City Council is appealing a 2017 tribunal decision that granted foster care workers Jimmy and Christine Johnston rights including sick pay, holiday pay, a guaranteed minimum wage

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The Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) has launched a crowdfunding campaign today to raise £20,000 to defend a landmark judgment granting employment rights to a type of specialist foster care workers. Glasgow County Council is appealing an employment tribunal decision fro

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