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Care home group offering £1,000 towards household bills to encourage new applicants

By Jemma Crew, Reporter16th February 2022News England

A care home group is offering to give new carers £1,000 towards their household bills in a bid to fill vacancies and ease their cost of living worries. Saint Cecilia’s

New immigration rules for overseas care staff ‘will have little or no effect’ – providers warn

By Jemma Crew, Reporter15th February 2022News England

Relaxed immigration rules for overseas care workers will have “little or no effect” because most UK employers do not pay enough for them to qualify for the scheme, a care

Care providers able to recruit from overseas after relaxation of immigration rules comes into force

By Jemma Crew, Reporter15th February 2022News England

Social care providers will be able to recruit overseas workers to fill vacancies under relaxed immigration rules that came into force on Tuesday. Care workers have been added to the

Around 4% of social care workers were self-isolating at end of January, new figures show

By Ian Jones, Reporter14th February 2022News England

Around one in 25 people in the UK working in social care, teaching and education were likely to have been self-isolating because of Covid-19 at the end of last month,

Social care workers in Wales to get £1,000 bonus as sector moves to real living wage

By Bronwen Weatherby, Reporter10th February 2022News Wales

More than 50,000 social care workers in Wales are to get a £1,000 bonus in their pay packets this year, it has been announced. The one-off payment, due in staff

Home care workforce in England down more than 17,000 since mandatory jab consultation

By Jemma Crew and Ian Jones, Reporters3rd February 2022News England

The number of home care staff in England has dropped by more than 17,000 since the Government launched its consultation on mandatory coronavirus vaccination, figures suggest. There were 406,365 domiciliary

Public’s faith in Government NHS policies low, with workforce gap biggest worry – poll

By Sophie Wingate, Reporter3rd February 2022News England

The UK public’s confidence in the Government’s handling of the NHS is low, with more than half disagreeing with its policies for the health service, new polling suggests. Only 12%

Government urged to apologise to sacked care home staff after mandatory vaccine U-turn

By Jemma Crew, Reporter1st February 2022News England

A care sector boss has said the Government must apologise to care home workers who lost their jobs, following its announcement that it plans to scrap the mandatory vaccine requirement

Health Secretary announces plans to scrap mandatory jab requirement in health and social care

By Jemma Crew, Richard Wheeler and Martina Bet, Reporters31st January 2022News England

The Government plans to scrap the requirement for health and social care workers in England to be vaccinated against coronavirus to continue in their roles following a consultation. Health Secretary

England’s hospitals within hours of running out of some PPE items – Matt Hancock

Minister admits ‘unacceptable’ rise in children subject to Deprivation of Liberty orders

Warning of ‘stark failure’ in social care after children placed in caravan and Airbnb