Gavin Edwards

Senior National Officer for Social Care, UNISON

Gavin has been with UNISON since 2007, working in a variety of roles at national office, including bargaining support and national officer for the Community Service Group.  Since December 2019, he has been Senior National Officer for Social Care. He is lead negotiator on behalf of UNISON social care members for national employers and runs UNISON’s ‘Let’s Make Care Work’ campaign for a National Care Service in England. UNISON is the largest union in the care sector. Gavin leads for UNISON on Fair Pay Agreement in Social Care.

Peter Davies

Senior Organiser, GMB

Peter is a regional manager (senior organiser) for the third largest trade union in the UK, the GMB. They represent over half a million workers in the private, public and not for profit sectors. 

Peter led and helped to produce the GMB Ethical Home Care Commissioning Charter and lead for the North East, Yorkshire and Humber Region on care campaigns. 

By working with providers over the past four years Peter has seen that the way care is commissioned 'on the cheap' in the UK, under valuing the care as well as the carers themselves, is driven by Westminster choices and embedded through procurement in Council Town halls and, that’s where it must be changed.

Anna Dabek

Partner, Anthony Collins Solicitors

Anna is a partner in the employment and pensions team. She supports a range of not-for-profit, charitable and commercial organisations providing complex and strategic advice to HR directors and senior executive teams. She has particular interest supporting health and social care sector.

Janet Williamson

Head of Corporate Governance and Collective Bargaining, Trades Union Congress

Janet is Head of Corporate Governance and Collective Bargaining at the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and leads the TUC’s work on these areas. She is currently leading the TUC's engagement on the implementation of reforms introduced by the Employment Rights Act on union recognition, union rights of access to workplaces and the Adult Social Care Fair Pay Agreement. 

Janet has written widely on collective bargaining, corporate governance, worker directors, executive pay, employee share ownership, shareholder engagement and collective bargaining, producing many TUC reports and submissions and other publications. She is also the founder and Chair of Trade Union Share Owners, an initiative that brings together trade union investors to collaborate on voting and engagement at company AGMs, and a trustee of the TUC Superannuation Society. 

Janet has represented the TUC on a wide range of bodies and is a member of the Corporate Governance Committee of the ICAEW; the Cambridge University Centre for Business Research Advisory Board; and is a director of Aspire and the High Pay Centre.