Angeline Albert
10 Feb 2022
Home care workers are being encouraged to give their views - before the 16 February deadline - in a consultation on whether the government should scrap Covid vaccination as a condition of employment in NHS and social care settings.
Home care staff were required to have had their first dose of a Covid vaccine by 3 February to meet an incoming vaccination mandate on 1 April.
However, on 9 February, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) opened a consultation into revoking its controversial ‘no jab no job’ mandate for NHS and social care workers.
'No longer proportionate'
The DHSC stated: ‘While vaccination remains our very best line of defence against COVID-19, and all people working in health and social care settings have a professional duty to be vaccinated, the view of this government is that it is no longer proportionate to require vaccination as a condition of deployment through statute in health, care homes or other social care settings.