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Care home worker 'had to live of £90 a week' after self-isolating with Covid-19
direct to your inboxA care home worker claims he wasn't paid to self-isolate after testing positive with Covid-19.One support worker, who is employed by a care home in south Manchester, alleges he was forced to apply for statutory sick pay when he contracted the virus.This meant he was paid just £90 a week, despite usually working 48 hour weeks and earning a monthly salary of around £1,600.Adult social care providers are expected to pay the full wages of care home staff who are isolating, after they were awarded an infection control grant by the government.The fund was first introduced in May 2020, with £600 million distributed to both local authority and private care home providers.It has since been extended to March 2021, with an extra
