This scheme will allow small and medium-sized employers to recover the costs of paying coronavirus-related Statutory Sick Pay.
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The inquiry was paused in March to allow the Health and Social Care committee to focus its efforts on the crisis posed by the outbreak of the coronavirus.
The grants will be distributed to small and medium-sized enterprises and social enterprises that are delivering innovations in ‘health-tech’.
The document includes tips, tools and advice on how employers can take care of the wellbeing of their staff during the coronavirus outbreak.
Providers are increasingly concerned by the increase in staffing costs, PPE and the stress and anxiety suffered by staff and service users.
Current guidance states that furloughed staff can work or volunteer for the care sector, without losing their furloughed pay.
The webinar, hosted by Yapster, will focus on an initiative launched by Askham to connect carers with each other and company leaders.
The letter argues that social care services should become zero-rated for VAT in order to keep care providers in business.
The council has been praised for helping providers cope with additional costs and delivering PPE supplies to them when they need it.
More than 200 potential manufacturers have been identified and many have been contracted to make over 25 million items of PPE.