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All care homes in England are finally vaccinated against Covid – nearly four MONTHS after rollout began

29/03/2021

All care homes in England have now been offered the vaccine. However, there are still a number of elderly people who haven’t been reached by vaccine teams. The Government promised that all over-80s would be vaccinated by mid-February, and yet in some places up to one in four elderly people […]

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Liz calls for social care reform on BBC Radio 4 Today

23/03/2021

I spoke to BBC Radio 4 Today about the urgent need for social care reform a year on from the start of the first lockdown. More than 31,000 care home residents have died from Covid-19 so far. This is a much higher proportion than in many other countries. As we […]

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Carers who sleep overnight at work in case they are needed not entitled to minimum wage for whole shift – Supreme Court rules

22/03/2021

It’s extremely disappointing that the Supreme Court came to this decision. Care workers do a highly skilled and difficult role and they should be paid fairly for every hour of the work they do. Crucially, no care workers should see their pay fall as a result of this ruling and […]

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Liz calls for greater support for social workers

19/03/2021

I recently spoke in a Westminster Hall Debate to mark ‘World Social Work Day 2021’. I thanked the 100,000 social workers in the UK, including the 320 in Leicester, for their hard work, passion and commitment to supporting people in our communities. Social workers have faced huge additional pressures […]

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Scores of housebound patients ‘have not yet had a Covid-19 vaccine’ despite many being high priority

19/03/2021

Ministers have been warned for months now about low vaccination rates amongst housebound elderly people who are too frail, ill or anxious to travel to get their vaccine. The Government must get to grips with this problem as a matter of urgency. Ministers need a clear plan to increase uptake […]

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Liz calls for social care reform to help our economic recovery from the pandemic

19/03/2021

Yesterday I spoke in a Westminster Hall Debate on Social Care and the Social Care Workforce. I argued that reforming social care is one the biggest challenges facing our generation. The pandemic has brutally exposed the flaws in our social care system which is undervalued and underfunded. Reform is […]

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Liz makes the economic case for social care reform in Budget debates

09/03/2021

Today I spoke in the final day of Budget debates in Parliament. I argued that reforming social care is a matter of social justice and an economic necessity, and that the governments failure to grasp this fact is undermining growth, productivity and the need to get value for taxpayers’ money […]

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Liz speaks about lack of support for social care in the Budget

05/03/2021

Rishi Sunak’s budget on Wednesday had absolutely no mention of social care. This pandemic has exposed the impact of 10 years of social care funding cuts, and our carer workers and families deserve better. The Chancellor then told the BBC that the reason that social care plans hadn’t been brought […]

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Liz calls for strategy to vaccinate all care home staff

23/02/2021

This week, we discovered that only 69% of care home staff in England have been vaccinated against coronavirus. In London, this is as low as 52%. This is incredibly worrying. We need a clear strategy from the Government, that addresses lies and misinformation about the vaccine. We also need […]

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Chris Whitty: Medics and care staff have ‘professional responsibility’ to get Covid vaccine

23/02/2021

Official data shows that only 52% of staff in care homes for the elderly in London have have their coronavirus jab. This is incredibly worrying – the vaccine could save their own lives, as well as the lives of people in care. The government must put in place a strategy […]

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Covid-19: Care home residents in England to be allowed one regular visitor

22/02/2021

The Government have announced that from March 8, care home residents in England will be allowed one regular visitor. This is something Labour has been campaigning on since last June. However, we need confidence that things will really change. We need legislation, to make visits to care homes a legal […]

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Tragic toll year of loneliness has taken on elderly laid bare

17/02/2021

Labour has been calling for care home visits to resume for months. I wrote to Matt Hancock last June asking for families to be treated as ‘key workers’, with the same testing and PPE as staff. Now, we are almost a year into this pandemic, and blanket bans on care home […]