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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

Government ‘set for U-turn’ on mandatory vaccines for health and social care workers

By Jemma Crew, Jane Kirby, Rebecca Speare-Cole, Reporters31st January 2022News England

The Government is “looking…again” at whether to scrap mandatory coronavirus vaccines for frontline health and social care workers in the light of the less severe Omicron variant. Ministers have been

Campaign launches to inspire next generation of social care workers in Essex and East London

By Laura McKellar, Reporter28th January 2022New To Care

A new campaign to inspire the next generation of social care workers has been launched today in Essex and East London. Aimed at 14-19 year olds and hosted by employability

Waspi women criticise ‘bizarre and unjustified’ ruling out of compensation

Sara Sharif’s father and stepmother branded ‘executioners’ as pair are jailed for life

Letby legal team seeks fresh bid to challenge convictions of child serial killer