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• Clare in the community: the tweet sound of lockdown

  26-05-2020 16:00
  
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• Battling through a deadly pandemic: Owen Jones meets the coronavirus key workers

  26-05-2020 12:03
  
  For some, lockdown has felt like an eternity, but a lot of key workers have continued to go to work through unprecedented circumstances. Owen Jones asked four workers – a postal worker, a care home worker, a cycle courier and a security guard – to give insight to their working life during the pandemic. He questions if enough has been done to keep them safe from Covid-19  Continue reading...
  
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• Residents receive gift bags filled with love and personal messages

  26-05-2020 08:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  Families of residents living at a St Helens Nursing Home have been receiving gift bags filled with love and personal messages from their loved ones.   Over the last two weeks, care staff from Stocks Hall Nursing Home in St Helens have been helping those living at home to create personalised ‘Miss You’ bags for […]
  
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• Relatives receive gift bags filled with love and personal messages

  26-05-2020 08:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  Families of residents living at a St Helens Nursing Home have been receiving gift bags filled with love and personal messages from their loved ones.   Over the last two weeks, care staff from Stocks Hall Nursing Home in St Helens have been helping those living at home to create personalised ‘Miss You’ bags for […]
  
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• As Covid-19 decimates our confidence in care homes, what are the alternatives? | David Brindle

  26-05-2020 08:00
  
  Older people voting with their feet may lead to home closures. The pandemic must prompt a rethink of our ageing population’s care needs
  Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageWhat is the outlook for care homes? Polling suggests 31% of us are less likely to seek residential care for an older relative in light of coronavirus. Among people aged 65 or over, 40% are less likely to consider it for themselves.No one questions the extraordinary dedication and bravery of
  
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• National Care Consortium acquires twenty-bed Lincolnshire residential nursing home

  26-05-2020 07:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  National Care Consortium (NCC) has acquired a 20-bed residential nursing home from Making Space.   Gables Manor, with a CQC Good rating, is a Lincolnshire home, providing care and support to adults living with learning disabilities and associated needs.   Adult health and social care charity Making Space has sold the service, commissioned by Lincolnshire […]
  
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• Care workers should be better paid and valued after Covid-19 – poll

  26-05-2020 01:01
  
  Fawcett Society survey shows support for income-tax increase to fund pay riseCoronavirus - latest updatesCoronavirus - see all our coverageThere has been a dramatic shift in the public’s perception of care workers as a result of the coronavirus crisis, with most people believing they should be better paid and better valued, according to a survey.The poll, which was published on Tuesday by the gender equality campaigning charity the Fawcett Society, found 65% of respondents supported an inc
  
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