On Carers Rights Day, I spoke at North West roundtable with carers and care providers, organised by Cllr Joanne Harding. We heard some heartbreaking stories from people who have not been able to see their families, and the key role that unpaid carers play in looking after elderly, ill or […]
The Government have announced that Leicester will now be in Tier 3 of local restrictions. I’ve published a joint statement with Jon Ashworth, MP for Leicester South, and Claudia Webbe, MP for Leicester East, outlining what must be done to help our city throughout this challenging time. Leicester has been […]
Today I met with the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain, following concerns of worker exploitation in Leicester’s textile factories. IWGB work across a wide range of areas to represent mostly low-paid and migrant workers, and areas of the workforce that have been under-unionised and under-represented for too long. We […]
Care homes are spending an average of £4,000 to help relatives see their loved ones. Families are desperate to visit relatives in care homes, and we know visits are vital to mental health and wellbeing of residents. The Government have failed to back up their promises to families with the […]
I secured a Parliamentary debate earlier this week on worker exploitation in Leicester’s garment industry. We know that there are failings across the industry, and in particular among factories supplying Boohoo. The debate focused on three main areas: the failure of Boohoo to take action following allegations of poor working […]
I asked the Care Minister to start utilising the 157,000 spare tests currently unused to test families visiting care homes. For many families, it has been eight months since they last saw their loved ones in person. A pilot scheme simply fails to understand the scale or urgency of the […]
New figures from the Labour Party show that there are around 157,000 coronavirus tests a day going unused. This excess testing capacity in the system shows that family testing can be done now, not after a pilot. For families of care home residents every week is crucial and we cannot […]
As it stands, only 67 out of 151 local authorities have been able to designate a Covid-only care home in their area. This isn’t just bad for care homes, but also for the NHS, which desperately needs all capacity to treat Covid patients and bring down the huge backlog in cancer […]
During a debate in Parliament last week, I called on the Government to learn lessons from the pandemic’s impact on people with dementia. The majority of dementia patients are cared for in the community and in their own homes – and yet these care settings have not received the attention […]
The Government’s pilot on testing families with loved ones in care homes fails to meet the urgency or the scale of the task. I spoke to BBC Radio 4 Today about the new pilot programme – listen to the full interview on BBC Sounds.
The Daily Mail are campaigning to ensure families can reunite with loved ones in care homes this Christmas. This is a vital campaign which I urge everyone to back. We’ve been calling for the Government to make families with loved ones in care homes a priority for testing since June, […]
The Daily Mail today launched their Christmas campaign, to get families reunited with their loved ones in care homes before Christmas. There simply isn’t enough time for many of those living in care homes to wait and watch for a pilot scheme or another set of guidelines, we need action […]