Ruth Allen: government’s Covid response sidelined social care
Ruth Allen, the CEO at the British Association of Social Workers (BASW), reflects on the urgent and painful failures set out in As if Expendable, Amnesty International’s report into the effect of coronavirus on care homes.
Health and social care senior clinicians and leaders are urging their frontline colleagues to get their annual flu jab as soon as possible, as the first vaccine deliveries start to reach local employers this week.
