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Exempting social care workers from Covid-19 self-isolation will not be a free for all , council leaders have insisted.
The government announced last week that fully vaccinated frontline NHS and care staff will be able to continue working instead of isolating if contacted by Test and Trace – in exceptional circumstances – in order to prevent providers being crippled by absences.
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Care home staff could be forced to get the Covid-19 jab before they are allowed to work – with the latest figures showing nearly 2,000 have yet to be vaccinated in Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire.
The government has launched a five-week consultation on whether vaccination should be made a condition of deployment for care home workers, due to take-up rates still lagging behind other priority groups.
Care worker Russell Bettany was the first person to receive the Covid-19 jab at the Tunstall mass vaccination centre
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Nearly 2,000 social care workers in Stoke-on-Trent – more than a third of the total – have yet to take up the offer of a Covid-19 vaccine.