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The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has gathered together bereavement resources to help the social care workforce during what has been a very difficult time.

Latest Skills for Care figures show the staff vacancy rate across adult social care services in England reached 10% in March 2022.

Adult social care experts and members of the public are being invited by the House of Lords Adult Social Care Committee to give evidence on how the “invisibility” of social care can be “dismantled” for the people who it directly affects.

The Health and Social Care Levy came into effect on 6 April, raising billions in funding to tackle the Covid-19 backlogs and reform adult social care.

As a number of time-limited adult social care resources came to an end on 31 March, social care bodies have called on the Government to reinstate the funding.

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has written to Health and Social Care Secretary Sajid Javid calling for an urgent extension of life assurance payments which provide financial support to families of deceased health and social care workers in England.

Updated guidance from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has expanded its list of Covid-19 symptoms to include another nine signs of a Covid-19 infection.

The Government has announced new guidance outlining the next steps for living with Covid-19.

As free Covid-19 testing for the majority of the population in England ends, new guidance has been issued for managing adult social care staff and residents with symptoms of a respiratory infection or a positive Covid-19 test.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has said in a progress report that much more action is needed to ensure people with a learning disability, autistic people and people with mental ill health get the right care at the right time.