Providers Unite Launches Campaign Documentary Ahead Of Labour Party Conference Action
Providers Unite has stepped up its campaign exposing the UK care crisis with a new film that reveals emotional truths from care and support workers, individuals and their families.
The Backbone of Care Filmed between February and July 2025, documents the rise of Providers Unite and their urgent, emotional, and politically charged campaign to save Britain’s collapsing social care and support system.
Through powerful interviews interspersed with moving scenes from their first rally at Westminster earlier this year, they convey the stark economic truths, revealing how the social care sector forms the foundation of our communities and the invisible pillar maintaining the NHS.
Moreover, how successive governments’ failed promises of reform now finds social care and support on the brink of collapse, which will be a national tragedy, unless urgent action is taken! ‘The Backbone of Care’ follows the mobilisation of thousands of care providers, carers, and families who came together on the 2025 Day of Action to demand urgent government reform.
Providers Unite spokesperson Katrina Hall said:
“With over 1.6 million professionals supporting 1.2 million individuals, social care is the UK’s invisible infrastructure.”
“Yet the sector is under critical threat as a result of 30 years of government underfunding, policy shifts, wage pressures, and the escalating costs of National Insurance. In this film, we hear the truth from the front lines: stories of burnout, collapse, heartbreak and resilience.”
“From green-carding MPs in the Palace of Westminster to marching with placards and chanting ‘Who Cares? We Care,’ the campaign captures a collective roar of defiance from our nearly 5000 members.”
“This documentary is not just a call for reform; it’s a living record of the social care and support sector refusing to go unheard. ‘I’ve worked in care for over two decades — but I’ve never seen it this bad.”
“We’re not asking for charity. We’re demanding justice.’ said Katrina Hall. The film shines a spotlight on our invisible workforce and nearly 6 million unpaid carers propping up the UK’s care system.”
“It makes a clear call to action for MPs and the public to stand with Providers Unite ahead of their next Day of Action at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool this September. ‘This is our love letter to the care and support community, but also a line in the sand to our Prime minister and government. You cannot build a National Care System on the back of thousands of broken services and millions of lives, without truly engaging us!’ Katrina added.
