One Year On - Covid Pandemic in Care Homes

Care Campaign for the Vulnerable (CCFTV)  was set up over seven years ago to help offer guidance, advice and direct support to families and care workers while championing the rights of our elderly.   Since the start of the Covid pandemic, our not for profit, national safety in elderly care organisation has seen our workload increase with reports coming in of neglect, revenge evictions and families facing a ''blanket ban'' on visiting care homes when it was evident loved ones were declining both emotionally and physically from having family no contact.  One year on from this devastating crisis - our vulnerable elderly have been left without a voice and families have fought to be with elderly relatives, even at the end of their lives.  Throughout this heartwrenching time, we understand the challenges and hardship care providers and staff were faced with and the sterling work so many managers did offering risk assessments to allow safe visits to happen.  Care Campaign for the Vulnerable is leading the call for a public inquiry on the handling of our care homes and the treatment of our elderly.  We want to have examined the confusion on the Government's guidance that was placed around care home visitation and therefore we ask was enough done by this Government to protect our most vulnerable elderly in care and nursing homes during this pandemic.  We speak to a family member CCFTV supported called Jane, a Senior Sales Consultant whose father suffered from Parkinson's and Lewy Body dementia and was evicted from his care home because his daughter questioned his care and the care providers ''unfair'' visitation restriction policy.