A director of three care homes says her staff are 'fighting day-to-day' to get through the crisis as they wait for further help.
"To be reading that letter when I'm counting deaths just feels...I feel totally unsupported, I feel our services are just not recognised for what we are doing on a daily basis....to get that is just unforgivable."
The frustrations were echoed in Scarborough on the North Yorkshire coast, where Mike Padgham runs a small group of homes. His teams have also been working flat out trying to manage staff sickness and protect their elderly residents."I think the time for the blame and the finger pointing will come, we need to fight together and not fight each other during this pandemic."But I would say they are not paying the price for not fixing the roof when the sun was shining in social care in the past."The true figures for deaths within social care are very difficult to work out.
Mandy Thorn, of the National Carers Association, told Sky News:"Because we've had so little testing of people who have very sadly died in care homes, it's going to be very difficult to ever know the true numbers.
The Department of Health and Social Care in Westminster has said it is working"around the clock" to give social care workers the equipment and support they need while also trying to publish accurate data on coronavirus-related deaths in care homes.
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