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Stockport care homes ordered to give staff full sick pay for Covid-related absences with ill carers 'struggling to make ends meet'
hereBut Stockport council has now joined 12 other north west authorities, in formally supporting and UNISON’s Care Workers vs COVID-19 Campaign.Councillors have unanimously backed a Labour motion calling for action to address the ‘serious public health risk’ to care workers who - according to the Office for National Statistics - are twice as likely to die from coronavirus than their NHS counterparts.Stockport council has been awarded £3.1m from the government’s Infection Control Fund, to help reduce COVID-19 transmission in and between care homes and protect staff.And the motion calls for care providers to use that additional funding ‘to pay care workers their full normal pay for all COVID-19 related absence, including sickness,