Visits will resume in specific care homes once local directors of public health and local authorities decide it is safe to do so

Visits will resume in specific care homes in England once local directors of public health and local authorities decide it is safe to do so

'That is not going to happen here': Care home bosses hit back at PM

After spending months apart due to lockdown, care home residents have been reunited with their family in a socially distanced solution.

First family reunions in care homes with socially distanced solution

Millions of people across the UK have become unpaid carers for loved ones due to the coronavirus outbreak, new figures have found.


Families say relatives passed away with symptoms of Covid-19, without the virus ever being recorded as a cause of death.

Data shows NHS and councils block booked beds in care homes to ensure they were ready to deal with a surge in patients coming from hospital.

For the first time, deaths in care homes accounted for more than half of the total number of coronavirus deaths on a single day.


The poetry session was hosted by author Gyles Brandreth.

Liz Kendal said Mr Buckland's comments are "the clearest admission yet that ministers didn't give care homes the protection they needed".

Political Correspondent Paul Brand draws together all of our reporting over the past two months to assess what went wrong.

At least 5,889 care homes had reported a suspected outbreak of symptomatic or confirmed coronavirus, as of May 17.

The latest data includes all care home residents who died with coronavirus either at their care home or in hospital.

An NHS boss says care homes have been "neglected for too long".

There have now been more than 8,000 coronavirus-related deaths in care homes in England and Wales.

Data which identified a massive in Covid-19 was sent to ministers a month before the government's Care Home Action Plan was published.

A North East based care provider, Wellburn Care Homes, has launched their own We Care badge aiming to show support for care workers.