Wrexham.com on Mythryl: “The inquiry explains that care workers on low pay faced a choice…”

The inquiry explains that care workers on low pay faced a choice between staying at home with little income or going to work when they should have been isolating. Then health minister Vaughan Gething told the inquiry the Barnett formula left the Welsh Government without financial certainty. He…

wrexham.comWelsh care workers waited five months longer than the rest of the UK for full Covid sick pay, inquiry findsCare workers in Wales waited at least five months longer than those in the rest of the UK for funding to give them full pay while self-isolating with Covid-19, according to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry. The Inquiry's report on the adult social care sector, known as Module 6, says the delay meant financial support in Wales "came too late". The report, published on Tuesday, 20 October, also finds that home care workers in Wales waited until December 2020 for regular Covid-19 testing. A paper supporting their testing reached the Welsh Government in July that year but was not considered at the time.

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