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Social care given over £250m to continue coronavirus protections
The government has announced that people in care homes or those being cared for at home will benefit from an extra £250 million to continue to protect them from coronavirus transmission.
Made up of £142.5 million Infection Control Funding and £108.8 million for testing, the fund will help protect people in adult social care by continuing to meet the cost of rigorous infection prevention and control measures, as restrictions in wider society are eased, and supporting rapid, regular testing of staff to prevent virus transmission.
This funding brings the total funding given specifically to social care to £2 billion throughout the pandemic to help support the sector and keep people safe. This is on top of prioritising the sector for vaccines, providing regular, rapid testing to care homes and bringing in regulations to make vaccines a condition of deployment in care homes.
Minister for Care Helen Whately said: “We are keeping up our support for social care through the pandemic. This new funding will help care services continue to protect those they look after and their staff from this cruel virus. It brings our total support to social care to £2 billion during the pandemic, along with billions of items of free PPE, over 120 million tests and the prioritisation of social care in the vaccination programme.”
The new money will be a continuation of Infection Control and Testing Fund, which was due to run until the end of the month and will now last until the end of September.
Infection Control Funding is used by care homes and home care providers to keep their staff and residents safe. It can be used to: ensure staff who are isolating receive their normal wages while doing so; ensure that members of staff work in only one care home where possible; limit or cohort staff to individual groups of residents or floors/wings, for example paying for extra staff cover to provide the necessary level of care and support to residents; and support recruitment of additional staff (and volunteers) if they’re needed to enable staff to work in only one care home.
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