Wednesday, 5 May 2021

Change the law now to ensure end to blanket bans on care home visits, urges Joint Committee

Change the law now to ensure end to blanket bans on care home visits, urges Joint Committee The Joint Committee on Human Rights has prepared a draft statutory instrument to lay before Parliament to secure legal protection for care home residents deprived of family visits, and therefore, their human rights.

In today’s report, Care homes: Visiting restrictions during the covid-19 pandemic, the Committee calls on the Government to make the existing requirements for individualised assessment for visits mandatory by laying its draft Regulations, as soon as possible. 

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