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• Our social care workers must be paid a living wage | Angela Rayner

  18-09-2020 23:30
  
  I used to be a home care worker. Despite all their bravery and hard work, Boris Johnson is still failing to keep them safeCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe key workers who have helped get our country through this crisis have rightly been praised as heroes this year. But the truth is, they have always been heroes. They have always been the backbone of our country, of our communities and of our economy: the people we cannot survive without.Tory ministers have fa
  
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• Angela Rayner demands real living wage for care workers

  18-09-2020 23:30
  
  Labour deputy leader asks Boris Johnson to recognise workers’ sacrifices in pandemicCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageEvery one of the UK’s million-plus care workers should be paid at least the real living wage, Angela Rayner has demanded, as care homes brace for a feared resurgence of Covid-19.Labour’s deputy leader said the government must tackle low pay in the industry as she challenged Boris Johnson to follow lockdown “warm words”
  
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• Mosquito-borne viruses linked to stroke

  18-09-2020 16:42
  A deadly combination of two mosquito-borne viruses may be a trigger for stroke, new research has found.
  
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• Is the UK government ready for a Covid winter?

  18-09-2020 13:25
  
  A scientific report in July made several recommendations to avoid a resurgence. We look at the government response
  In mid-July, an Academy of Medical Sciences report urged the government to use the remainder of the summer to prepare for a second wave of coronavirus during the winter.Commissioned by the government’s chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, the 79-page study warned that a resurgence of the virus had the potential to kill up to 120,000 hospital patients in a worst-case
  
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• Thupayal Hussain: 'As a young carer, I was doing things no 15-year-old boy should do'

  18-09-2020 09:00
  
  The banker and charity ambassador calls for more practical support for young people caring for family during the Covid crisisThupayal Hussain began his teens quite ordinarily. “I’d rush home from school, watch my favourite TV programme and eat the dinner my mum cooked. I played video games and football with my friends.” He pauses. “It’s difficult to look back.”When he was 15 , everything changed. “I remember the day vividly. My head of year came into the
  
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• Special window visit to celebrate Diamond Wedding Anniversary

  18-09-2020 08:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  A very special window visit took place at Stocks Hall Nursing & Care Group as Peter and his wife Vivian, celebrated their 60th Wedding Anniversary. 
   
  The visit was made possible by staff at Stocks Hall Mawdesley Care Home, where Peter lives.
   
  Peter is currently shielding due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
   
  Vivian said, “It meant everything to me that we got to spend our 60th anniversary together. It’s very difficult not being able to see Pete
  
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• Right now, children need a champion. But they are losing one | Polly Toynbee

  18-09-2020 08:00
  
  Young people have been hardest hit by austerity, and infant mortality is rising. The new children’s commissioner must not be another Tory cronyAt midday today applications close for the next children’s commissioner for England. There was never greater need for a fearless defender of children to take over from the admirable Anne Longfield, whose six-year term ends in February. After a decade of destruction there is a crisis in every children’s service.Taking on this job will be
  
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• Covid: government promise free PPE for UK care workers this winter

  18-09-2020 08:00
  
  Move is an attempt to avoid repeat crisis of early pandemic, where equipment shortages were blamed for care home outbreaks
  Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageCare workers will get free supplies of masks, aprons and gloves this winter as the government tries to avoid a repeat of the Covid-19 catastrophe in care homes.Tougher rules requiring the closure of care homes to visitors in areas with a high incidence of the virus are also expected, with an exemption likely f
  
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• Young people raise awareness of loneliness faced by so many during lockdown

  18-09-2020 07:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  The recent  lockdown, caused by Coronavirus, has seen the media focus on older people and the problems they have faced with isolation and loneliness. How young people in temporary accommodation have been coping has been largely ignored however.
  Sheffield Foyer is a specialised supported housing scheme run by Guinness Care, which also works with many older people across the country. The Foyer provides accommodation, training and support to young homeless people, aged 17-25, to enable them to
  
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• Adult Social Care Winter Plan aims to curb the spread of COVID-19

  18-09-2020 05:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  A new Adult Social Care Winter Plan will aim to curb the spread of COVID-19 infections in care settings throughout the winter months, the Health Secretary confirmed today.
   
  As part of the plan, people receiving adult social care and care workers will receive free PPE, a new dashboard will monitor care home infections and help local government and providers respond quicker, and a Chief Nurse for Adult Social Care will be appointed to represent social care nurses and provide clinical leaders
  
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