A ballot of Fórsa members employed in community and voluntary sector agencies funded by the HSE, has returned overwhelming support for industrial action.

Are you ready for statutory regulation? Fórsa will be hosting a one-day conference that will go through all aspects of statutory regulation for Social Care Workers.

On the 17th of October, Fórsa and the National Association of Hospital Pharmacy Technicians (NAHPT) will launch a position paper setting out the case for statutory regulation of hospital pharmacy technicians in the Republic of Ireland.

A new memoir by career social worker and author Patrick O’Dea has just been published. His third book - I, who had it figured out! – documents O’Dea’s personal experience of 40 years as a social worker in Ireland, including 17 years teaching social work at Trinity College, Dublin.