T: 01822 851370 E: [email protected]
Bookings are now officially open for the National Rural Conference 2025, which will take place online from Monday 15 to Thursday 18 September.
This is the Rural Services Network’s flagship event of the year, bringing together rural decision-makers, practitioners, and advocates for four days of live, interactive sessions focused on the future of rural communities.
Click here to book!
Delay vaccine deadline for care-home workers or risk huge staff loss, provider warns
The Guardian reports that one of England’s largest social care providers, Anchor, has urged the Government to change the vaccination deadline for all care-home workers, warning of a risk to levels of care as data confirmed that more than 50,000 staff could quit in the country from next week
The care provider, a not-for-profit chain of 114 services, alerted it was poised to lose about 120 staff because of the “no jabs no jobs” policy effective from Thursday, making double vaccination a condition of deployment in care homes.
Anchor has subsequently already stopped admitting people to some homes because of the nationwide staffing crisis.
NHS data released last week Thursday revealed that more than one in 10 care staff had still not had two doses of coronavirus vaccine with only a few thousand of those people granted medical exemptions from the jab.
Full article:
The Guardian - Delay vaccine deadline for care-home workers or risk huge staff loss, warns provider
