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Grant family carers ‘key worker’ status.

Submitted on Monday 5th October 2020

Rejected on Monday 12th October 2020

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Grant family carers ‘key worker’ status.

Petition Details

We would like the government to give family carers designated key worker status so that they can easily access and visit their loved ones to provide essential support and care in a residential care setting or care home in the same way that paid carers employed by the care providers can.

Additional Information

Family carers provide essential practical and emotional support to their loved ones in residential care and care homes which promotes their well being and prevents social isolation. COVID-19 advice from government has largely resulted in blanket policies of no visits or very limited controlled, timed visits being adopted by care providers instead of an individual risk based approach. This stops all relatives from providing life giving and health enhancing personal support causing much distress.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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You may wish to sign this petition calling for a similar action: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/550381

Individual care homes are responsible for setting for their own visitor policies, so the Government adding family carers to the list of critical workers would not automatically mean that they were able to visit family members in care settings.

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