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• UK care home staff 'at breaking point' as coronavirus cases rise

  31-03-2020 21:40
  
  Care workers and homes report insufficient PPE and lack of clear government guidanceCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageBritain’s care homes are in danger of being overwhelmed by the coronavirus, with staff warning they are at “breaking point” and the country’s biggest charitable provider revealing confirmed or suspected cases in more than half of its facilities.MHA, which runs more than 220 facilities, said 750 of its staff – more than
  
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• DC Care sells former Wolverhampton care homes

  31-03-2020 17:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  DC Care has announced the recent sale of Avenue House and Apple Tree Court, Wolverhampton, upon the instructions of Begbies Traynor’s J Karr & S Killick – Joint LPA Receivers.   Avenue House and Apple Tree Court are adjacent properties located in a desirable conservation area of Tettenhall in Wolverhampton. The buildings are former private […]
  
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• England's children commissioner calls for volunteer social workers

  31-03-2020 17:02
  
  Anne Longfield plans to recruit retired staff to help vulnerable children amid coronavirus crisisThe children’s commissioner for England has called for an army of volunteers to help support children’s social care during the coronavirus crisis in an effort to stop the most vulnerable falling through the gaps and disappearing from view.Just as doctors and nurses who left the NHS have responded to calls to return to work to help save lives, Anne Longfield would like to see retired socia
  
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• Cornwall’s hotels step up in fight to support NHS through the coronavirus

  31-03-2020 08:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  Cornwall’s hotel industry will soon be joining Cornwall Council in helping to reduce the impact of coronavirus by providing a place to stay for people who have been in hospital, are able to be discharged, but are not ready to go home. Cornwall Council’s adult social care team has been working on this scheme that […]
  
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• From factory floor to young people’s therapeutic care home

  31-03-2020 07:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Ray Pearce began his working life on the shop floor of a Worcestershire factory, he could not have predicted that twelve years on, he would be managing a residential unit catering for eight young people with autism in a care home set at the foot of the picturesque Malvern Hills. Driven by his passion […]
  
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