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The statement put the cost of replacing staff not meeting the vaccination requirement at £2,500 each.
The statement put the cost of replacing staff not meeting the vaccination requirement at £2,500 each.
In an impact statement from the government, officials believe between 3% and 12% of care home staff may still resist getting a Covid jab by the end of a 16-week grace period. The central estimate was that 40,000 could be left without jobs, but it could be as high as 70,000 or as low as 17,000.
Comment: It's likely that the number will be much higher than what the 'officials believe'.
In a separate statement on the public sector equality duty, the government said the policy of mandatory vaccination for care home staff was "likely to have a significant impact on ethnic minorities" as one in five members of the social care workforce are black, Asian or from another ethnic minority, a higher proportion than in the overall population of England.
Comment: Where do they think they're going to find these replacement workers? The industry already suffers high rates of turnover because of low pay and difficult working conditions and so, if they force this legislation through, it's likely to result in a great many more deaths due to plummeting standards of care.
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