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• Care home crisis is the result of years of neglect | Letters

  03-06-2020 19:38
  
  Bill Shaw says the Thatcher government systematically dismantled social care provision, while Les Bright highlights what went wrong with private services. Plus letters from Tom Wilson and Janet BroadmorePolly Toynbee’s prophetic article (The ghosts of the care-home dead will come back to haunt this government, 1 June) highlights the neglect of the independent healthcare sector by Boris Johnson and his colleagues, and the endemic malice inflicted on it by successive Tory governments since M
  
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• A fitting end to the clap for carers ritual | Letters

  03-06-2020 19:33
  
  Readers share their mixed feelings about the end to the doorstep tribute to NHS and social care workers every ThursdayFor the past 10 weeks most of the nation has enthusiastically taken part on Thursdays to clap for our carers. It would seem that last Thursday was regarded as the final one (Clap for our Carers: the very unBritish ritual that united the nation, 28 May). I was moved by the comment of a doctor who said she would stand in silence to remember her colleagues who had died. I would like
  
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• Care home coronavirus deaths in Scotland overtake hospitals

  03-06-2020 16:51
  
  Scottish government accused of failing to implement routine testing for care home staffCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageMore people have now died in care homes in Scotland than in hospitals, according to the latest figures from the National Records of Scotland (NRS), which also show that overall deaths have fallen for the fifth week running.The latest data on weekly deaths occurring in various settings shows that 1,818 deaths linked to the virus have occurred in
  
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• Loneliness in lockdown reduced by kind donation from Kirklees Council to local care homes

  03-06-2020 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Facebook Portal Mini is a smart video calling device with an 8 inch HD display. Kirklees Council, working in collaboration with NHS partners, 17 of these devices have been sent to learning disability care homes across the borough in a bid to keep residents from feeling lonely whilst social distancing restrictions are in place. […]
  
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• Care home staff could be asked to work without PPE under council plan

  03-06-2020 13:00
  
  Proposals suggest seeking volunteers to look after coronavirus patients without protective gearCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageHealth and social care workers could be asked to volunteer to look after people with Covid-19 without wearing protective equipment in the event of extreme shortages, according to proposals seen by the Guardian.Councils oversee a range of services which require PPE but which are outside the NHS supply chain. These include care homes, phar
  
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• Army of celebrities join forces in lockdown megamix in aid of The Care Workers’ Charity

  03-06-2020 10:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  An a cappella army of celebrities and entertainment professionals have joined forces to perform a lockdown megamix in aid of The Care Workers’ Charity. The AcaArmy Lockdown Megamix features well-known tracks ‘Staying Alive’, ‘Fever’, ‘Lonely’, ‘Toxic’, to name a few, with celebrities, X factor winner Sam Bailey, RuPaul’s Drag Race UK Star Divina de Campo, […]
  
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• Jewish Care creates online resource to provide fun and engaging virtual activities

  03-06-2020 08:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jewish Care has created an online resource to provide fun and engaging virtual activities for older people at home whilst on lockdown. Since suspending activity at its community centres at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, the organisation has responded quickly, rolling out remote services and maintaining the deep levels of care and support it […]
  
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• They used to call me 'retard'. It was a really dark time – I was dying inside

  03-06-2020 08:00
  
  Shaun Webster once faced abuse, but now has an MBE for helping others with a learning disability, he reveals in a new book I am standing on my dad’s doorstep. It’s 20 years since he called me a retard. I haven’t seen much of him since then. He told me I’d never work, never live on my own, never have a relationship. I came on the bus from the flat where I live alone. I’ve got an ex-girlfriend standing next to me for moral support. I haven’t told my dad I’
  
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• My learning disability is a bit of me, but it doesn’t define me

  03-06-2020 08:00
  
  Shaun Webster once faced abuse, but now has an MBE for helping others with a learning disability, he reveals in a new book I am standing on my dad’s doorstep. It’s 20 years since he called me a retard. I haven’t seen much of him since then. He told me I’d never work, never live on my own, never have a relationship. I came on the bus from the flat where I live alone. I’ve got an ex-girlfriend standing next to me for moral support. I haven’t told my dad I’
  
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• Making Space named as care provider at new Cheshire extra care scheme

  03-06-2020 07:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  National adult health and social care charity Making Space has been announced as the care provider for a new multi-million pound extra care housing scheme in the Cheshire town of Warrington. The £11m development from north west growth and regeneration organisation, Torus, will provide state-of-the art independent living for people over the age of 55.  […]
  
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