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• Social care must be a Government priority now Brexit is done

  06-01-2021 15:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  A campaigner says his New Year wish is for the reform of care of older and vulnerable people to be an urgent Government priority now that Brexit is done.Mike Padgham, Chair of The Independent Care Group (ICG), says the arrival of the Oxford Independent Care Group vaccine is excellent and provides light at the end of the tunnel.But he said that light could get even brighter if 2021 was the year social care got the reform it has long been promised.Mr Padgham said: “2020 has been a dreadful y
  
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• Fogging investment gives extra reassurance to relatives of care home residents

  06-01-2021 11:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  As community infection rates for Covid-19 continue to rise, teams in all 124 Care UK homes now have three additional pieces of kit to help minimise the risk of infection.As well as all the stringent cleaning procedures that teams in the homes follow according to a detailed pandemic action plan, these state-of-the-art pieces of technology – fogging machines, air purifiers and thermal imaging cameras – further increase the levels of safety. The fogging machines are proving especia
  
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• 'We're being impoverished'. How English councils have cut care during the pandemic

  06-01-2021 10:00
  
  Thousands of older and disabled people have faced major cuts to care packages since last March, a Guardian investigation revealsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageLee Mangar’s voice trembles with exhaustion and indignation. She has been looking after her increasingly frail father throughout the pandemic without any payments to cover her caring responsibilities.“I am going to cry now … I just need everyone to know the absolute shoddy position Suff
  
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• Care home company ‘reindeers’ raise vital funds for disability charity

  06-01-2021 10:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sure-footed colleagues at a Ringwood-based care home company held a reindeer run to raise more than £350 for people with autism and learning disabilities.Thirteen team members from Colten Care’s Colten House head office donned antlers along with their trainers for a 5km circuit around the town, clocking up nearly 70km between them.The festive dash was in aid of an appeal by the Stable Family Home Trust which provides essential services in Hampshire and Dorset including residential ho
  
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• Thousands of children sent to unregulated care homes amid Covid

  06-01-2021 07:00
  
  Exclusive: commissioner for England says children are at risk of ‘abuse or exploitation’ due to council failingsThousands of the most vulnerable children have been sent to unregulated care homes during the pandemic at a cost of millions to the taxpayer, a Guardian investigation has found.Council bosses say they have nowhere else to put those most at risk as there are not enough places for the number of children in need, which has soared during the Covid crisis. The result is young pe
  
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• 'I have survived, literally': a teenager's experience of unregulated housing

  06-01-2021 07:00
  
  Drugs and fear of crime are part of life for those housed in unregulated accommodationHakeem had never experienced class A drugs until he was moved into supported housing by the council. Aged 17, he was placed in unregulated accommodation: a shared home in south-east London that became a trap house, a base for distributing and storing drugs, he said.In the next few months he saw people come and go with knives, and there were constant break-ins to his room, with his PlayStation stolen. Eventually
  
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