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• 'People say, I didn't know such homes existed': a care home with courage

  28-02-2021 18:27
  
  Manager Jonathan Cunningham has ensured residents see family in lockdown on a rickshaw with a Perspex screenCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage
  When Matt Hancock announced that care home residents in England could finally receive indoor visits from one friend or relative from 8 March, families breathed a huge sigh of relief.The isolation of society’s oldest and most vulnerable people in their twilight years has been one of the cruellest side-effects of the pa
  
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• Balhousie Care praises staff and warns of long-lasting impact and cost of COVID

  28-02-2021 10:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  A year on from the first COVID-related death in Scotland, leading care home operator Balhousie Care Group has revealed the emotional toll on its staff of dealing with the deadly virus. Yet as it warns that living with Coronavirus is “our new normal”, the award-winning provider says its care home ‘families’ have become even closer in the wake of the biggest challenges of their care careers.Balhousie Care Group staff tell of the anxiety, stress and night terrors they are ex
  
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• Vulnerable children 'forgotten' in Covid vaccine rollout, say UK charities

  28-02-2021 10:08
  
  Ministers urged to help families struggling to protect children with underlying health conditionsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThousands of the UK’s most vulnerable children are being “forgotten” in the coronavirus vaccine rollout, charities have said, as they urged ministers to help struggling families.The country has met its target of vaccinating the most clinically vulnerable adults, but under-16s are not eligible as current vaccines have
  
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