Telegraph describes new immigration plan for care homes a ‘Brexit betrayal’
Who knew caring for our elderly could be so divisive!
Tag: Care homes
Ministers planning overseas hiring spree to save care homes
Steve Barclay, the health secretary. is drawing up plans to bring in foreign staff "on a mass scale".
Hancock apologises for pandemic ‘pain and anguish’ after care home ruling
More than 20,000 elderly or disabled care home residents died from Covid-19 in England and Wales during the first wave of the pandemic.
Boris Johnson was not telling lies to win the last election, Tory minister insists
Business minister Paul Scully said the prime minister was only "boiling down a complicated message" - we've heard that one before!
‘No better time to become a care worker,’ Tories claim as TV ad launched
The government advert will run on UK TV stations to help fill more than 100,000 social care vacancies, with health secretary Sajid Javid praising the "exciting and rewarding" career.
No jab no job: Ministers to make Covid vaccines mandatory for care home staff
Staff will be given 16 weeks to get vaccinated or face losing their jobs.
Care home leaders reject Hancock’s claims that government protected them
"It was frightening. If it weren’t for the hard work of social care staff, those figures would have been much, much worse.”