Home Care Insight has launched the Coronavirus Advice Desk, a page you can frequently visit to stay up to date with new industry developments, initiatives and guidance.
It will contain a range of coronavirus-led articles on how businesses within the industry are adapting to change and what government decisions mean for the sector in general.
It will also feature advice and guidance from the government, Public Health England and social care leaders on delivering quality care and weathering the storm.
Return to this page for updated internal and external links during the Covid-19 crisis.
Updated on June 1.
GOVERNMENT/INDUSTRY GUIDELINES
Government offers home care advice to all providers during coronavirus pandemic
Government revises guidance on ‘shielding’ for vulnerable people
Revised PPE guidance published for home care providers
Coronavirus guidance for home care providers issued by the government
Furloughed staff can now work in social care and protect pay, government confirms
Updated infection control and PPE guidance from Public Health England
Coronavirus guidance issued for providers supporting adults with a learning disability and autism
CQC guidance on DBS and other recruitment checks
Guidance on changes to the Care Act 2014
Government advises new 12-week ‘shielding’ period for extremely vulnerable people
Digital Social Care issues guidance on data protection during COVID-19 pandemic
Guidance of RIDDOR reporting of COVID-19
GOVERNMENT/REGULATORY SUPPORT
Fast-track online social care recruitment platform announced
Government PPE Portal opens to small home care providers
Amazon, Royal Mint and Jaguar step in to help government boost PPE supply
Government scraps tax on PPE for care providers
Government launches latest social care recruitment campaign
Councils given extra £1.6bn to support social care services
COVID-19 testing promised for ‘everyone in social care’, but home care clients omitted from plans
Government publishes national plan for PPE as tensions mount over supply shortages
Care providers urged to contact CMA over PPE overpricing
Government announces £2.9bn to support care sector in fight against coronavirus
New service allows DBS to respond quicker to care worker recruitment requests during COVID-19
Details on free parking concession scheme
BUSINESS INITIATIVES
Skills for Care launches COVID-19 advice line for managers
How are recruitment and training specialists supporting care providers through the COVID-19 crisis?
New website launched to match care providers with PPE suppliers
Virtual marketplace connects care providers to PPE supplies
CASE STUDY: COVID-19 alert system helps PPE go further at Midlands home care service
New website allows Brits to send ‘Message of Thanks’ to care workers
Cornwall volunteers join forces to create scrubs and masks for frontline NHS and care staff
National Care Force launched to fill gaps in the workforce
Home care provider invests in 3D printers to produce its own PPE
Software group CASPA tracks COVID-19 symptoms in care settings
Yorkshire Care Equipment invests in community care to help free up hospital beds
Skills for Care endorses My Learning Cloud for essential social care training during pandemic
Right at Home supports care workers’ mental health with new online resource
Care professionals offered free online training on coronavirus prevention
Access Group launches online hub to help track spread of COVID-19
More than 60 MPs back emergency appeal for care workers
Home care service for disabled adults keeps spirits up with ‘quirky quarantine’ activities
Nursebuddy offers free services for home care providers in response to COVID-19
National campaign launched to support frontline workers tackling coronavirus
Care charity offers new career opportunities for people out of work
Birdie offers free services for home care providers in response to coronavirus
Bluebird Care launches ‘COVID-19 Toolkit’ for franchise partners
WELLNESS
New virtual hub offers mental health support during lockdown
Five meditation and yoga techniques to reduce pandemic anxiety
Care workers get WHO advice on managing mental health amid coronavirus outbreak
