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• Patrick Kodikara obituary

  08-02-2021 20:51
  
  Patrick Kodikara, who has died aged 82, spent four decades working in senior social services roles across London, and was appointed as the UK’s first black director of social services – in Camden – in 1983.He was born in Negombo in Sri Lanka to Gregory Kodikara, a tax collector, and his wife, Gladys (nee Fonseka), a housewife. Following schooling at St Joseph’s college in Colombo he came to England in 1961 on a scholarship to study social work at the London School of Econ
  
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• The Tories' massive NHS U-turn won't undo the damage they inflicted | Polly Toynbee

  08-02-2021 19:31
  
  Billions were wasted after the upheaval of 2012. Hospitals forced to compete, not cooperate. Will we get an apology?
  Finally, here comes the confession from the Conservatives that they have done monumental damage to the NHS. The great upheaval created by Andrew Lansley in 2012, with the support of the Liberal Democrats, blew the NHS into fragments, each compelled to compete and submit to private tender to “any willing provider”.The Health and Social Care Act’s anti-NHS ideology
  
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• Joyce Lishman obituary

  08-02-2021 19:09
  
  My mother, Joyce Lishman, who died aged 73 of bronchopneumonia, was a leader in social work education and research.In 1993 she was appointed the first female professor at Robert Gordon University (RGU) in Aberdeen, where she led the school of applied social science until her retirement in 2011. In 2000, Joyce set up a long lasting partnership between RGU, Strathclyde University and other organisations to form the Scottish Institute for Residential Child Care. Continue reading...
  
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• Support migrant NHS and social care staff | Letter

  08-02-2021 18:11
  
  Workers from overseas have risked their lives during the pandemic and should be given indefinite leave to remain, writes Mictin Janardhanan Ponmala, urging people to sign his petitionI am an overseas NHS nurse from Luton and Dunstable university hospital. Overseas nurses have held the hands of patients who have succumbed to sickness, more prominently Covid. Knowing all the risks and dangers that this role entails, we still carry on and provide the best nursing care to the British public.The thou
  
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• Heathcotes Group opens new supported living properties in Bradford

  08-02-2021 08:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Care provider, Heathcotes Group, has opened Horton View, a new provision of independent supported living properties in Bradford for adults with learning disabilities and mental health needs.An existing property in Clayton is being redeveloped in two phases to create a total of 14 self-contained apartments for individuals who are stepping down from a hospital or full-time residential care setting to improve their independent living skills. The service includes a team of around 30 support workers
  
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• UK care workers use up leave to avoid losing pay while sick with Covid

  08-02-2021 07:00
  
  Failure to pay some staff’s wages in full while off sick raises fears they will keep working rather than self-isolateCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSome UK care workers are having to take holiday when they are off sick with Covid or see already low wages fall to £96 per week, raising fears they may not self-isolate.Staff on the minimum wage claim to have been offered only statutory sick pay when ill with Covid or self-isolating. This contravenes gov
  
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• ‘Horrible guilt’: the impact of Covid deaths on a care home worker

  08-02-2021 07:00
  
  ‘There’s a voice in your head saying you’ve killed these people’, says one employee of a UK home with 12 deadCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIt’s already hard for care workers to cope with Covid outbreaks that kill residents they have known for years. Guilt that they may possibly have caused it only makes things worse.That is the anxiety faced by many, according to a carer who has spoken to the Guardian from the midst of a care home
  
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