Care Home Visiting in a COVID-19 World

As part of the government’s ‘Living with Covid’ plan, adult social care guidance has been consolidated into three documents:

Visiting guidance is now contained within the COVID-19 supplement linked above. We note the the ‘essential care giver’ role has been removed and replaced with the rather vague term ‘visitor who provides personal care’.

Below you can find a link to our ‘Partners in Care’ resource which has been instrumental in helping providers implement previous iterations of visiting guidance. There are also links to previous statements and campaigns to enable visiting in care homes.

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