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• England care providers say 10% council fee rise is ‘too little, too late’

  10-04-2020 19:44
  
  Groups react with ‘disbelief’ to offer of temporary higher rate to cope with coronavirus pandemicCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageCare providers struggling to maintain services during the coronavirus crisis have reacted angrily to an offer by English council chiefs of a temporary increase of 10% in the fees they pay the care homes, to cover their additional costs.Councils have been given an emergency £1.6bn by the government for extra spending p
  
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• Ministers urged to include care home deaths in daily UK coronavirus toll

  10-04-2020 17:41
  
  Labour calls for change after Guardian reveals hundreds of victims are not being countedThe new shadow social care minister has called on the government to include fatalities from Covid-19 outside hospitals in its daily death toll, after the Guardian revealed that hundreds of people had died from the virus in care homes and not yet been counted.In a letter to the health secretary, Matt Hancock, Liz Kendall, who ran for the Labour leadership in 2015, said she had serious concerns that deaths of p
  
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• College staff rally to provide PPE for frontline NHS staff amid COVID-19 crisis

  10-04-2020 08:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  In an effort to support the local community during the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic, Coleg Gwent staff have been working hard to keep learning going remotely while looking after the wellbeing of staff and learners during this very unusual time. Staff have been working extra hard behind the scenes to collect, donate and supply goods such […]
  
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