How is COVID-19 impacting the live-in care sector?
How is COVID-19 impacting the live-in care sector? Many experienced, long-established live-in carers agencies have been ensuring that their staff and clients are safe with their own infection control and testing procedures throughout the pandemic. This pandemic has put an immense strain on live-in care services , with over 50 thousand deaths involving Coronavirus throughout as per the National Statistics. While the healthcare sector has been shored up with infection control fund from the UK government for testing, staff and PPE, the live-in care sector has not been fortunate enough to receive fund-flood such as other medical departments, even yet. It’s almost a year since the pandemic has taken a storm over the world, but live-in care sector is still struggling to manage their best because of lack of government’s fund. We at Live-In Carers Direct have been always been transparent about the measures we have taken throughout the crisis for our staff before assigning them to o