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• The Guardian view on Covid vaccines: persuading the public | Editorial

  17-06-2021 20:19
  
  It is right to mandate protection for care home staff. But keeping people safe also requires engaging and supporting themDominic Cummings launched a lurid attack this week on the “chronic dysfunction” and incompetence in the government’s pandemic handling, singling out the health secretary, Matt Hancock, for most criticism. While few would want to rely solely on an account from Boris Johnson’s controversial former aide, some of it quickly contested, there is plentiful evi
  
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• Compulsory care-home staff jabs may sound sensible but would create a catastrophe | Polly Toynbee

  17-06-2021 18:36
  
  There are already vacancies in England that cannot be filled. So what will happen if vaccine-hesitant workers decide to leave?It’s a no-brainer, isn’t it? Of course every care and NHS worker should be vaccinated against Covid and anything else that puts them and their patients at risk. Those who remember people who had contracted polio at school with leg irons or paralysed arms know how to thank modern medicine for our salvation.Facts, scientific facts, that’s the dose the vacc
  
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• Mandatory Covid jabs for care workers in England unworkable, warn bosses

  17-06-2021 16:52
  
  Warning care homes may be legally liable for enforcing policy while some staff say they would rather quitCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageMatt Hancock’s mandatory Covid vaccine policy for care home workers in England will turn managers into jab “bouncers”, sector leaders have warned as growing numbers of staff say they would rather quit than be vaccinated.The health secretary’s announcement that tradesmen, visiting NHS staff, hairdressers
  
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• Local Care Home is the ‘Best of the Bunch’ says Ex-Care Manager

  17-06-2021 10:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sarah Baker (88), a former Care Manager the Hanover Housing Association, recently singled out Local Care Home, Bowood Court and Mews as her care home of choice.Bowood Court and Mews welcomed Sarah in March 2021. “We have such a laugh here and I love the company. It’s been wonderful and I have met so many lovely people. Being a Care Manager for over 40 years, you get to know what to look for in a care home. I have been here for nearly 2 months now and I cannot complain, it’s the
  
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• Local Care Home is the ‘Best of the Bunch’ Say Ex-Care Manager

  17-06-2021 10:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sarah Baker (88), a former Care Manager the Hanover Housing Association, recently singled out Local Care Home, Bowood Court and Mews as her care home of choice.Bowood Court and Mews welcomed Sarah in March 2021. “We have such a laugh here and I love the company. It’s been wonderful and I have met so many lovely people. Being a Care Manager for over 40 years, you get to know what to look for in a care home. I have been here for nearly 2 months now and I cannot complain, it’s the
  
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• Sherrell House welcome their first Essential Caregiver

  17-06-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  This month, the team at Sherrell House Care Home in Chigwell welcomed Karen, their first Essential Care Giver (ECG).The Essential Caregiver role was introduced in the Government guidance on visiting in care homes, effective from 8 March 2021. It runs alongside other types of visiting and recognises that some residents need more regular support from relatives/friends, a greater degree of contact, or help with personal care.Enabling a relative or friend to visit for longer and more regul
  
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• The evidence is clear – there was no excuse for Hancock’s care homes strategy

  17-06-2021 07:00
  
  The health secretary’s failure to act on scientific worst-case scenarios informed policy, with catastrophic resultsThe UK has suffered some of the worst consequences of the pandemic among developed nations, in terms of both deaths and economic disruption. But instead of learning from its mistakes, all the evidence suggests that the British government is trying to rewrite history while the pandemic is still going on.When the health secretary, Matt Hancock, appeared in front of MPs last week
  
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• Children’s services in England shaky as Jenga tower, says review lead

  17-06-2021 07:00
  
  Report says system is bureaucratic, risk-averse and in need of reform and investment after years of cutsThe English children’s services system is a “tower of Jenga held together by Sellotape” and needs major reform and investment, the head of an independent review has found.Josh MacAlister described the children’s social services system as bureaucratic, risk-averse, financially strained and over-focused on investigating potential abuse and neglect at the expense of provid
  
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