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I’ve been talking with a care providing charity (I won’t name). They’re contracted to care for vulnerable children. I wanted to know see how they’re managing food supplies. Carers usually shop for, and cook for the kids, in the kid’s homes.
Middle management have reduced risk of transmission by offloading their site visits to the carers so they can go home.
The suggested protection for the carers (some attending to kids with Covid-19 symptoms) is advice to ‘wipe handles and wash your hands’. There is no direction, or sign of effort-made to stop those carers going home or on to other kids the next shift carrying the disease.
Unsurprisingly they’re losing staff already and people are really pissed off. Management’s response has been to talk-down the pandemic in verbose emails quoting ‘only’ 5k cases nationwide and the figure was ‘likely to be higher than the true number due to the lack of testing’.
They have verbally said that staff won’t have anything higher than statutory sick pay if off ill or isolating (contradicting contracts and the latest government promises) and that carers should consider the risk to the children of suicide and be quiet.
A toxic mix of incompetence, negligence and cynicism.