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Dec 2021
District care homes reduce services after unvaccinated staff forced to leave
Some care homes in the Harrogate district have had to cut back services because unvaccinated staff left rather than having covid vaccines.
The government made it mandatory for all care home workers to be vaccinated by November 11. It said this would protect people being cared for.
Richard Webb (pictured), corporate director for health and adult services at North Yorkshire County Council, told a media briefing this week that nine staff out of 2,000 at council-run care homes had refused to have the vaccine and therefore either had been redeployed or had their contracts terminated. Five of these were in Harrogate.
Mr Webb said there were 500 care providers in total across North Yorkshire, adding:
The county council began a social care recruitment drive Make Care Matter to plug the staff shortfall. Mr Webb said it had so far generated 170 applications and that 31 interviews were coming up and 14 people had been appointed to jobs.He said there would be a second recruitment phase after Christmas.
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