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Home Care Services: Coronavirus

Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN HL10581, tabled on 23 November 2020

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether care assistants who are employed directly by older and disabled people but are not registered by the Care Quality Commission will be eligible for the same regular COVID-19 testing as domiciliary care workers.

Answered on

3 December 2020

We will provide further information in due course about how we will extend regular testing to other homecare workers, including non-registered Care Quality Commission-organisations and personal assistants.