The Government has been condemned for excluding social care workers from its new immigration rules, with the move described as an “embarrassing shambles”. It was announced on Monday that a
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The UK is among the countries to have recorded the highest number of health and social care worker deaths during the coronavirus crisis, according to a report by Amnesty International.
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A lack of joined-up health and social care services led to an increased number of older people dying during the coronavirus pandemic, a charity leader has said. Untrained care staff
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Instead of putting their hands together to clap care workers, the Prime Minister and Chancellor should put them in the Treasury’s pocket to properly fund the creaking system, a Tory
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The National Pensioners Convention has joined calls for the introduction of a National Care Service, under which social care would be publicly funded. Its new report says there has been
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The UK’s social care system “needs a huge amount of work” and has been “broken for a long time”, Sir Keir Starmer has said. The Labour leader made the comments
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Men working in social care have more than double the risk of death from Covid-19 as those in the general population, while women have twice the risk, new figures show.
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NHS and care workers from black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds have been treated like “cannon fodder” during the Covid-19 pandemic, ministers have been told. Labour’s Rushanara Ali (pictured)
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A union is calling for Scotland’s “broken” care system to be transformed into a national care service after the coronavirus pandemic. Unison said adult social care has been the “forgotten
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The care sector should adopt a similar system to the NHS to prevent more deaths, Unison said, as it published a new strategy. The UK’s largest trade union said the
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